Climate Change and Migration 

Climate change is an increasingly potent driver of migration across regions and countries. Part of the learning series "Migrants, Refugees, and Societies", , this course provides an understanding of how climate change impacts are already affecting and may affect trends, scales, and patterns of migration in the coming decades. For practitioners and researchers working at the nexus of climate, migration, and development, such an understanding is essential to better inform policy.  

  • Training typology

    Onsite

  • Certificate

    Free of charge

What's included?

  • Hands-on sessions
  • Text materials
  • Certification
  • Peer to peer discussions

Learning Objectives

  • Be familiar with the current state knowledge on how climate change is set to shape migration trends and patterns.
  • Have insight into how policy frameworks currently address mobility in the context of climate change and their evolution.
  • Understand of how scenario-based and spatial approaches are useful tools for understanding climate-related mobility.
  • Gain insight into how climate impacts compound with other factors of vulnerability in potential “hotspots” of climate migration through case studies.
  • Think through policy domains that can help address climate-related mobility and inform development planning.

Who we are looking for

Journalists covering migration and forced displacement issues; mid-level to senior officials and policymakers in government agencies; development practitioners in international and regional organizations working on migration and forced displacement; NGO workers; researchers and thought leaders from think tanks; and master's and PhD students.

Meet our core team

Viviane Clement  
Senior Climate Change Specialist with the Climate Change Group of the World Bank
Kanta Kumari Rigaud 
Lead Environmental Specialist and Regional Climate Change Coordinator in the Africa Region of the World Bank Group