Warming Up to Immigrants: An Option for the US in Climate Policy

Climate migrants and exiles pose a unique challenge that requires a special international strategy, which only the United States, with its well-established and transparent regimes for legal immigration, has the experience and capacity to develop. To begin with, the US could take the initiative in fo...

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Published in:Economic and political weekly 2009-11, Vol.44 (45), p.19-23
Main Authors: BYRAVAN, SUJATHA, RAJAN, SUDHIR CHELLA
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
Climate change policy
COMMENTARY
Countries
Economic crises
Emissions
Emissions policy
Emissions reduction
Exile
Global warming
Greenhouse effect
Sea level
Sea level rise
Treaties
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Summary:Climate migrants and exiles pose a unique challenge that requires a special international strategy, which only the United States, with its well-established and transparent regimes for legal immigration, has the experience and capacity to develop. To begin with, the US could take the initiative in formulating domestic policy to start absorbing a significant proportion of the most vulnerable climate exiles from small island states. It could raise and attend to an urgent issue on the impacts of warming and at the same time claim a leadership position in global climate negotiations by tacitly accepting its historic responsibility for climate change.
ISSN:0012-9976
2349-8846