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Providing new homes for climate change exiles

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  • Sujatha Byravan
  • Sudhir Chella Rajan

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Given a certain pre-existing commitment to sea-level rise due to the long thermal lags of the ocean system, several million people living in coastal areas and small islands will inevitably be displaced by the middle of the century. These climate exiles will have nowhere to go. Rather than deal with this in an ad hoc manner as the problem arises, the authors propose a mechanism by which these exiles would be given immigration benefits by countries through a formula that ties numbers of immigrants to a country's historical greenhouse gas emissions. Such a compensatory mechanism appears to be a fair way of addressing the problems faced by climate exiles.

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  • Sujatha Byravan & Sudhir Chella Rajan, 2006. "Providing new homes for climate change exiles," Climate Policy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(2), pages 247-252, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tcpoxx:v:6:y:2006:i:2:p:247-252
    DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2006.9685599
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    1. Tracey Skillington, 2016. "Reconfiguring the Contours of Statehood and the Rights of Peoples of Disappearing States in the Age of Global Climate Change," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 5(3), pages 1-13, August.
    2. Stacy‐ann Robinson, 2020. "Climate change adaptation in SIDS: A systematic review of the literature pre and post the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(4), July.

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