Nimrod Kovner is a second-year PhD candidate in the Department of Government. He holds a BA in the PPE programme (philosophy, politics and economics) and an MA in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Thesis
States Obligation towards Climate Change Migrants
The aim of this research is to explore the moral obligations towards those climate migrants. Recent predictions anticipate an alarming increase in migration caused by different adverse effects of climate change. According to these estimations, increasingly frequent and intense weather extremes as well as gradual environmental processes will displace many and force others to leave their homeland in search of decent living elsewhere. Although climate change effects will enlarge existing patterns of migration, its impact is intertwined with economic and social factors. Therefore, there is a need to think about climate migration in relation to migration at large.
The main claim of this study is that emitting states carry a special responsibility towards climate migrants, and therefore they have obligations to prevent potential migrants’ displacement or support their forced movement through admission or funding their resettlement elsewhere. The unfolding of this argument will emphasize several issues:
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The special responsibility of emitting states towards climate migrants generated by the additional risks they create through their GHG emissions
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The moral significance of building adaptation capacity to climate change that allow people staying where they reside
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The distinction between the obligation to admit migrants and the obligation to fund migrants’ movements
Supervisor: Dr Kai Spiekermann|
Research interests
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Climate change ethics
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Ethics of migration
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Global justice
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Collective responsibility
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Risk
Contact
Email: N.Z.Kovner@lse.ac.uk|