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Climate change could cost the world trillions of dollars every year. But at the moment, no one is required to pay for this damage, even if it is arguably their fault. That is where the world's courts come in.
The past five years have been an interesting time for the climate and for climate policy. But how has climate science evolved since Nature Climate Change first launched?