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We acknowledge the discussions with many colleagues of the IPCC Working Groups I and II, in particular with Wolfgang Cramer, Eberhard Faust and Andrew Solow. C.H. was supported by strategic funds by the Executive Board and Faculty of Science of the University of Zurich. D.S. was supported by the Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program and the Earth System Modeling Program of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the Department of Energy Office of Science under contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231. G.H. was supported by a grant from the German Ministry for Education and Research.
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Huggel, C., Stone, D., Auffhammer, M. et al. Loss and damage attribution. Nature Clim Change 3, 694–696 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1961
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