The Compensation Fund for Climate Impacts
- 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.
| Author details: | Detlef F. SprinzORCiDGND, Steffen von Buenau |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-12-00010.1 |
| ISSN: | 1948-8327 |
| ISSN: | 1948-8335 |
| Title of parent work (English): | WEATHER CLIMATE AND SOCIETY |
| Publisher: | AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC |
| Place of publishing: | BOSTON |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2013 |
| Publication year: | 2013 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Number of pages: | 11 |
| First page: | 210 |
| Last Page: | 220 |
