Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability

2025/04/23 by Christopher W. Callahan, Justin Mankin, Justin S. Mankin · 5 voices · 41 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Accounting #Business #Carbon fibers #Climate Change Policy and Economics #Climate Change and Geoengineering #Climate change #Climate science #Computer science #Environmental law and policy #Environmental science #Geology #Liability #Oceanography

paper · doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08751-3

published in Nature 640(8060), 893-901 (Nature Portfolio)

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• A groundbreaking scientific framework seeks to hold fossil fuel companies legally responsible for specific climate impacts. Researchers Callahan & Mankin link major polluters' emissions directly to ec [bsky, 18 points, 1 comments]
• 🧪 "A transparent, reproducible and flexible framework that formalizes how end-to-end attribution could inform litigation by assessing whose emissions are responsible and for which harms." Carbon majo [bsky, 11 points, 0 comments]
• "Drawing quantitative linkages between individual emitters and particularized harms is now feasible, making science no longer an obstacle to the justiciability of climate liability claims." Carbon ma [bsky, 6 points, 1 comments]
• Source: doi.org/10.1038/s415... [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]
• La publication originale : Christopher W. Callahan et Justin S. Mankin, « Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability », Nature, vol. 640, pp. 893–901 (2025) doi.org/10.1038/s415... [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]