A new study calculates that rich countries with high greenhouse gas emissions could pay $170 trillion in climate reparations.
Rich industrialised countries responsible for excessive levels of greenhouse gas emissions could be liable to pay $170tn in climate reparations by 2050 to ensure targets to curtail climate breakdown are met, a new study calculates.
The proposed compensation, which amounts to almost $6tn annually, would be paid to historically low-polluting developing countries that...