Extreme weather attribution and the evidential grounds for restorative climate justice

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• Ahmad Elabbar, Adrian Research Fellow
• Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:10-14:00
• Richard King room, Darwin College.

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Extreme weather events are among the most salient outcomes of climate change. In recent years, the science of “extreme event attribution” has emerged, with the aim of distinguishing the subset of extreme weather events that are attributable to anthropogenic climate change from those that are not. A number of authors have recently suggested that such attribution studies can be used to distinguish the “real victims of climate change” from persons harmed by “bad luck weather”, and that drawing this distinction among impacted persons is necessary for the pursuit of climate justice. This talk rejects the use of extreme event attribution as a means​ for recognising the victims of climate change on both practical and moral grounds, and suggests an alternative evidential standard for the recognition of climate victimhood.

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