A new E.U. service will determine how warming is reshaping weather. Its findings, experts say, could help insurers better understand climate risks and help advocates hold polluters accountable for climate damages.
A new E.U. service will determine how warming is reshaping weather. Its findings, experts say, could help insurers better understand climate risks and help advocates hold polluters accountable for climate damages.
Scientists with the Copernicus Climate Change Service will publish two reports a month on the role of warming in recent extreme weather, Reuters reports. It will be the first time that Copernicus will have an office devoted to attribution, the field of research concerned with discerning how emissions have shaped weather disasters.
The service could aid insurance companies in determining how warming is altering the risks from extreme weather. “Financial institutions understand risk, and risk has to be quantified, and this is one way of quantifying,” Johan Rockström, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told Reuters.
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Flooding in Valencia, Spain, in November 2024. (Photo Credit: Jaigascom via Wikipedia)
