About

Thomas Pogge is a professor associated with the Yale Philosophy Department, with a focus on global justice, health care justice, and political philosophy. His work includes publications on global justice, justice in health care, Rawls, Kant, and other areas of moral philosophy and ethics. Pogge has supervised doctoral dissertations and has been actively involved in research and public discussions on climate justice, global health, poverty, and ecological impacts. His recent activities include engaging in dialogues with the Supreme Court on climate justice, contributing to discussions on global structural reform, and exploring issues related to poverty, health, and environmental sustainability. His contributions extend to editing and authoring books and articles that address the moral and political challenges of global inequality and justice.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Law
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Microeconomics
• Mechanical engineering
• Engineering
• Psychology
• Economics
• Physics
• Business
• Finance
• Industrial organization

Selected publications

• Promoting World Health with Equity: From Patents to Impact Funds

  2025-01-01

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• Ecological Impact Fund: Greening the Global South

  2025-01-01

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  Abstract The Ecological Impact Fund (EIF) is a proposed new international financing facility that would enable originators of green innovations to exchange—in the lower-income countries—their monopoly markups for impact rewards. Each year, the EIF would split a preannounced disbursement among participating innovations according to the ecological impact achieved with them in the EIF-Zone. Replacing the headwind of monopoly markups with a tailwind of performance payments, the EIF would give originators a financial interest in the wide and effective use of their registered innovations and stimulate development of additional greenovations that—tailored to needs, cultures, circumstances, and preferences in the EIF-Zone—would be especially impactful there. These two effects would produce a third: the EIF would help build capacities to develop, manufacture, distribute, install, operate, and maintain green technologies in the EIF-Zone.

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• Ethics Brief: Achieving Equitable Research Partnerships by Facilitating Visas for Short-Term Researcher Mobility

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2025-01-01

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  Addressing humanity's challenges through research will only work if scientists can collegially share their ideas, knowledge, and research results. In this brief, we focus on the short-term mobility of scientists. We advocate for fast, unbureaucratic, low-cost, low-burden, short-term mobility visas, as the current visa requirements significantly impede scientific exchange. We explicate this ethically, according to the fourt values of Fairness, Respect, Care and Honesty. -- Funded by the European Union. UK participants in Horizon Europe Project PREPARED are supported by UK Research and Innovation grant number 10048353 (University of Central Lancashire). Swiss participants in Horizon Europe Project Prepared are supported by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Research Executive Agency or UKRI or SERI. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority nor UKRI or SERI can be held responsible for them.

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• Ethics Brief: Achieving Equitable Research Partnerships by Facilitating Visas for Short-Term Researcher Mobility

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2025-01-01

  articleOpen access

  Addressing humanity's challenges through research will only work if scientists can collegially share their ideas, knowledge, and research results. In this brief, we focus on the short-term mobility of scientists. We advocate for fast, unbureaucratic, low-cost, low-burden, short-term mobility visas, as the current visa requirements significantly impede scientific exchange. We explicate this ethically, according to the fourt values of Fairness, Respect, Care and Honesty. -- Funded by the European Union. UK participants in Horizon Europe Project PREPARED are supported by UK Research and Innovation grant number 10048353 (University of Central Lancashire). Swiss participants in Horizon Europe Project Prepared are supported by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Research Executive Agency or UKRI or SERI. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority nor UKRI or SERI can be held responsible for them.

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• Parochialism, plutocracy, philanthropy and global justice: a dialogue

  Journal of Global Ethics · 2025-01-02 · 3 citations

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  Moral Philosophy and Politics · 2024-04-01

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• The Future Outlook on Poverty Reduction Strategies with the Use of Mountain tourism

  2024-10-16 · 1 citations

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  The final chapter revisits the key points of this book. It conceptualizes the role of mountain tourism in pro-poor activity by capturing the core concepts, examples and theories from this book and providing an outlook on the areas for future research. Furthermore, it presents updated management and governance policies.

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• Mountain Tourism and Poverty Reduction

  2024-10-16 · 2 citations

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  Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries, generating an estimated 10.4% of global GDP (USD 9.2 trillion), 10.6% of all jobs (334 million), and was responsible for creating 1 in 4 all new jobs across the world. Moreover, international visitor spending amounted to USD 1.7 trillion in 2019 (6.8% of total exports and 27.4% of global services exports). As a result of COVID-19 and the ongoing restrictions to international mobility, the Travel & Tourism sector suffered losses of almost USD 4.5 trillion, with its global contribution to GDP declining by 49.1% compared to 2019 to reach only USD 4.7 trillion in 2020; relative to a 3.7% GDP decline of the global economy. Domestic visitor spending decreased by 45%, whilst international visitor spending fell by an unprecedented 69.4%. In the aftermath of the pandemic, however, consumer appetites for outdoor and less crowded holiday destinations have increased. And thus mountain areas are opening up new opportunities for mountain destinations to rebuild a greener and more sustainable form of tourism and rethink their products and services. For this to happen, the following measures developed and described in this book will take place. In addition, the countries sending tourists are usually countries in the Global North, and when visiting countries in the Global South, they spend their money there. Tourism is, in a way, a fair transfer of funds and thus is a powerful tool that can improve the quality of life of people in developing economies. This chapter provides a critical angle on mountain tourism and its sustainable use to battle poverty and inequality.

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• Pro-Poor Mountain Tourism

  2024-10-16 · 3 citations

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  "This timely and interdisciplinary book is the first to examine mountain tourism and local communities with a pro-poor lens. By drawing on human geography, political and social science, ethics and moral philosophy and empirical research, the volume explores how mountain tourism can be used to fight poverty and inequality in mountain regions. This volume will be of pivotal interest to scholars and practitioners from the fields of geography and tourism studies, ethics, and development economics, as well as policymakers, aid agencies, and general readers interested in sustainable development in mountain regions"--

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• Política interna mundial: un mundo moralizado

  Araucaria · 2024-01-01

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  Las sociedades más avanzadas de la actualidad se estructuran en torno a tres elementos normativos: el Estado de derecho, la satisfacción de las necesidades humanas básicas y la limitación de las desigualdades. Estos elementos están profundamente arraigados en la cultura, hasta el punto de que se espera que los ciudadanos subordinen plenamente sus diversos intereses y valores personales a un compromiso con el funcionamiento justo y equitativo de su sociedad. Esta arraigada expectativa normativa de imparcialidad es sorprendente: una madre que hace un favor a su propio hijo es ampliamente denunciada si lo hace en el desempeño de un cargo público. Por dura que pueda parecer esta condena del nepotismo, es una condición previa clave para las sociedades más exitosas que han existido hasta la fecha. Podría decirse que la supervivencia a largo plazo de la humanidad requiere un logro civilizatorio análogo en el plano global. Allí también, las normas y los acuerdos institucionales justos y equitativos pueden persistir solo si se espera que quienes se encargan de su diseño y funcionamiento sean estrictamente imparciales en la ejecución de sus funciones públicas y, por tanto, ampliamente denunciados por cualquier favoritismo hacia su país de origen. Como un mero reflejo de modus vivendi, el estado actual de las relaciones internacionales implica la expectativa contraria: que los agentes que operan a nivel supranacional actúen para promover los intereses y valores concretos de su Estado de origen. Este nepotismo nacional impide el surgimiento de un orden mundial basado en valores compartidos que la humanidad necesita urgentemente para dominar los grandes retos que plantean las armas sofisticadas y otras tecnologías peligrosas controladas a nivel nacional; el cambio climático y la contaminación; el agotamiento de los recursos y los grupos de presión supranacionales que dan lugar a acuerdos institucionales internacionales i

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Frequent coauthors

• Andreas Føllesdal

  141 shared

• Andrew Williams

  Baidu (China)

  139 shared

• Leif Wenar

  University of Graz

  139 shared

• Adam Swift

  Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy

  139 shared

• Elizabeth Anderson

  Baidu (China)

  136 shared

• Stephen Darwall

  University of Graz

  136 shared

• Simon Caney

  Walter de Gruyter (Germany)

  136 shared

• Lukas H. Meyer

  136 shared