TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sprinz, Detlef F.
A1  - von Buenau, Steffen
T1  - The Compensation Fund for Climate Impacts
JF  - WEATHER CLIMATE AND SOCIETY
N2  - Climate change is very likely to lead to undesirable climate impacts. How to compensate for such negative impacts at the international level has, hitherto, received little attention. This article reviews the most frequently discussed grounds for legal obligations of states vis-a-vis climate impacts (damages) and concludes that no convincing mechanism has yet been found to compensate climate impacts. The authors outline an architecture for a voluntary, international compensation fund with specialized, independent climate courts. Subsequently, this article addresses three strategic considerations related to the fund, namely, the incentives for founding it, the merits of double proportionality with respect to contributions and payments, as well as the benefits of employing prediction markets to enhance trustworthiness.
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-12-00010.1
SN  - 1948-8327
SN  - 1948-8335
VL  - 5
IS  - 3
SP  - 210
EP  - 220
PB  - AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
CY  - BOSTON
ER  -