Compared to every other country in the world, the US is bearing the biggest brunt of the economic losses inflicted by climate breakdown – and will likely continue to do so.

That’s according to a recent study from Stanford University, in which scientists calculated the economic loss and damages caused by major fossil fuel emitters.

Lead author Marshall Burke, professor of environmental social sciences at Stanford, told BBC Science Focus that the study aimed to find a way to link specific emissions to their economic consequences.

Read more in Science Focus here.

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