Providing New Homes for Climate Change Exiles Institute for
Financial Management and Research (IFMR) Sudhir Chella Rajan
Indian Institute of Technology Madras Climate Policy, Vol. 6,
pp. 247-252, 2006 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. Number
of Pages in PDF File: 6 Keywords: Climate-change, Sea-level
rise, Immigration, Adaptation, Climate justice,
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