{"id":9021,"date":"2026-04-12T12:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9021"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:18:14","slug":"us-has-caused-10tn-worth-of-climate-damage-since-1990-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/04\/12\/us-has-caused-10tn-worth-of-climate-damage-since-1990-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New research published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em> reveals that the United States has caused an estimated $10 trillion in global economic damage since 1990 due to its massive greenhouse gas emissions. As the world\u2019s largest historical carbon emitter, the U.S. is responsible for more harm to global economic growth than any other nation, even surpassing the $9 trillion in damages attributed to China. While roughly a quarter of this economic pain has been felt domestically, the study highlights that the burden has fallen disproportionately on poorer countries, such as India, which suffered approximately $500 billion in losses. The research specifically tracks how human-caused global heating has constrained GDP through extreme heatwaves, floods, and agricultural failures. These findings are expected to intensify calls from developing nations for wealthy countries to provide significant financial compensation for the &#8220;loss and damage&#8221; caused by the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 25, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/mar\/25\/us-climate-damage-research\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research published in the journal Nature reveals that the United States has caused an estimated $10 trillion in global economic damage since 1990 due to its massive greenhouse gas emissions. As the world\u2019s largest historical carbon emitter, the U.S. is responsible for more harm to global economic growth than any other nation, even surpassing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9206,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions\/9206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}