Climate Change & Migration

Future Lab #2 ACCRA

17 Nov 2026

Climate change is not only altering landscapes—it is reshaping the conditions under which people decide where to live, how to move, and how to build futures in the face of accelerating environmental disruption.

In Accra, a city at the intersection of rapid urbanization and climate vulnerability, the second Future Lab (November 2026) will focus on the similarities and differences in mobility patterns influenced by climate change and explore what climate-related mobility might look like in the coming decades.

To what extent can technology-driven adaptation measures in specific regions permanently delay tipping points?

What international legal protection mechanisms and humanitarian corridors need to be developed for people who are trapped in uninhabitable areas and who remain invisible in the global migration discourse?

How is the migration of young people from rural areas to globalized cities worldwide changing the labor market and housing situation in those cities? How will urban regions absorb or redirect movement?

The FutureLab in Accra creates space to map these possibilities and consider pathways toward more just and anticipatory responses to climate‑related mobility.