Rich industrialized countries responsible for excessive levels of greenhouse gas emissions could pay $170 trillion in climate reparations by 2050 to ensure climate change mitigation goals are met, a new study calculates. The proposed compensation, which amounts to nearly $6 billion a year, would pay off historically low-polluting developing countries that must transition away from fossil fuels despite not having yet used their "fair share" of the global carbon budget, according to the published analysis. in the journal Nature Sustainability. (Nina Lakhaniová)

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