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In total, this solution could avoid £11 of climate damages for every pound spent.
Cutting carbon pollution has costs, but it also creates benefits by reducing the costs of climate damages.
There is unquestionably a possible scenario in which our greenhouse gas emissions cause harmful and potentially catastrophic climate damages.
Both the costs of mitigating and the costs of adapting to climate damages must be taken into account.
The former tells us the cost of climate damages in a scenario where we also take significant steps to slow global warming.
According to these economic models, this slowed economic growth rate would be more than offset by the savings from avoiding climate damages above 3°C global warming.
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But climate damage may be different.
Moreover, there are ways to curb those climate damage costs without hurting the economy.
However, sudden action may be forced on governments by a period of catastrophic climate damage and food shortages.
As the evidence linking carbon dioxide emissions to climate damage piles up, can these legal cases be far behind?
In fact they're building up with interest, because the costs of climate damage are higher than the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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