ABSTRACT
Isolating the domain of climate justice for loss and damage requires identifying a connection between environmental loss and damage and emission-generating activities. This chapter presents the two most prominent methodologies for attributing weather events to climate change and assess whether we have reasons to reject one of them for being comparatively more unfair toward potential duty bearers, as some critics have implied. The chapter concludes that we do not have reasons to reject any of these attribution methods in favor of the other based on those reasons. This question is relevant because, if it were not so, we would have a reason to prefer one attribution method over the other, when it comes to using these attribution methods for climate justice purposes. Building on this result, Chapter 6 will assess which of those attribution methods are more purpose for a policy mechanism for loss and damage.
