the method of scientists to encrypt the responsibility of oil companies – Liberation

They say they have folded the game of climate responsibility. American researchers Justin Mankin and Christopher Callahan publish a method to present the invoice of climate damage to oil companies according to their greenhouse gas emission rate. Their study, published in the journal Nature this April 23,, « Would allow, in fact, to take a step in the establishment of the causal link between the emissions of a company and the concrete damage produced by these emissions », Comments Riccardo Fornasari, lecturer in private law at Paris-Dauphine University, who did not participate in the study.

According to them, the emissions of the 111 main oil companies lowered world GDP by $ 28,000 billion between 1991 and 2020, due to heat waves. « The scientific file of climate responsibility is closed », Ose Justin Mankin, geographer at Darmouth University.

« For several decades, we had no well -established scientific tools to calculate the impact of the emissions of each individual actor », explains Christopher Callahan. So the young researcher got down to the task during his thesis and then his post-doctoral contract. There