Who should pay for climate disasters?

摘要

To A casual observer of the latest round of climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, last week, it was a battle between Polish coal miners set on keeping their jobs and the people of the Philippines, trying to keep afloat after tempests worsened by climate change. In the corridors, the focus was different: it was another stage in the agonisingly slow crawl towards a global deal on carbon emissions that diplomats hope to seal in 2015. Little progress was made on most issues. But the two-week United Nations negotiations did end with an outline agreement that could one day allow victims of natural disasters shown to be exacerbated by climate change to sue coal-mining firms and power companies for compensation.