The combination of likely net damage costs of climate change and the risk of catastrophe has generated political will to address the problem was a factor leading to the Paris Agreement.
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COP 21: New study informs Paris summit delegates that extreme weather in the last two decades has claimed well over half a million lives and cost trillions of dollars.