What if climate change caused mostly by rich industrialized countries was at the root of the ethnic conflict that has spiraled into genocide in Darfur, as is argued in a new article in the Atlantic Monthly? CGD senior fellow David Wheeler, who leads the Center's new initiative on Confronting Climate Change argues that this year's reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are strengthening the case that rich world liability for climate change can be proven "beyond a reasonable doubt," the standard for criminal conviction. Sooner or later, he writes, international or national tort law will respond to these findings. Read the blog and comment
