Migration Policy Institute 240d ago

Rising sea levels could wipe some small Pacific Island nations off the face of the Earth. Would that render the citizens of those countries stateless? The possibility poses profound questions not only for the residents of these affected countries but for international law, which was largely not designed to confront climate change. How likely is this outcome? And what can countries do to protect their sovereignty and their citizens as they head into a bleak future? On this episode of the podcast, we discuss with Mark Nevitt, an international legal scholar at Emory University School of Law.