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My PhD Project.
Quantifying the influence of climate change on the impacts caused by climate extremes (impact attribution) is an emerging research agenda with practical applications for climate litigation, the Loss and Damage (L&D) agenda and climate risk assessments to inform adaptation. Applicants in climate lawsuits rely on evidence that can link a defendant's misconduct to the impacts caused by climate change. In climate policy negotiations on the Loss and Damage Fund (L&D), a fund established to support developing nations dealing with the worst effects of climate change, understanding the cost of climate change could inform funding discussions. Right now, impacts-based event attribution is concentrated in the Global North, meaning there needs to be more understanding of the role of climate change on hazards experienced in the Global South. Climate risk assessments support adaptation planning by identifying which communities, sectors, and regions are affected by climate extremes. For each of these practical applications, there is growing recognition of the value of considering economic and non-economic transboundary impacts and borderless risks.
My PhD seeks to explore the use and potential of distributing impacts in supply chains for climate justice. I have found that in existing impact attribution literature assessing the proportion of damages due to anthropogenic climate change (ACC), scant research examines the distribution of attributable impacts on a global scale. The implications of this gap are interesting and what I seek to explore in how they can contribute to climate justice. Stay tuned for more.