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Limiting Liability in the Greenhouse

Christina Ross, Evan Mills, Sean B. Hecht

Emitters of greenhouse gases externalize the true costs of their contribution to climate change. Efforts to recover these costs, which manifest both through the costs of impacts and the costs of efforts to prevent impacts, can take the form of insurance claims as well as legal remedies. The most widely discussed insurance-related consequences of climate change are the impacts of property damage from extreme weather events.  Click here to view entire article. 

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6/5/2007
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