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This factsheet, produced by the Climate Smart Land Network, highlights the science of extreme event attribution - an emerging field of research aimed at estimating how much human-induced climate change contributes to individual extreme events. This is a one-page factsheet, to view the full-length bulletin, visit the Climate Smart Land Network.