Migration as a climate solution: Skills, mobility and the just transition

The green transition is not just an environmental challenge - it is a labour market transformation. The shift to renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure, and climate-resilient economies is creating new and growing demand for workers and skills that domestic labour markets cannot always supply. 

This dialogue is specifically focused on how human mobility - well-governed and structured - can support the green transition, rather than simply being shaped by it. The question is not only how climate change drives displacement, but how migration can actively enable the clean energy future.

This dialogue will be moderated by Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, the ILO's Special Representative to the UN in New York.