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Last year's Copenhagen climate conference failed to produce any sort of useful legislation. Maybe the wisdom of the crowd can do a better job. That's the idea behind MIT Climate CoLab's Collective Intelligence Climate Contest, a project that asks participants to submit proposals that answer one deceptively difficult question: What international climate agreements should the world community make?

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International Court of Justice, photo: Karen Rustad/Creative Commons.

The issue of international legal liability for damages caused by climate change has come up a number of times recently, especially as scientists have become more adept at attributing natural disasters to global warming. Now, a new briefing by the Foundation for International Environmental Law & Development shows how there are existing laws and principles available for states to sue one another for damage caused by climate change, and how this could pressure nations into stronger international action.

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