Legal Experts Tout Emerging ‘Attribution’ Science To Boost Climate Suits

The emerging field of “attribution” science, which will be able to link emissions from a particular company or area to an adverse climate event, will help advance plaintiffs’ climate litigation efforts and could sway more companies to support enforceable climate policies, legal experts say. Speaking during a recent Environmental Law Institute (ELI)/Vanderbilt University Law School “Environmental Law & Policy Annual Review Conference,” Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said the...