Questions from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
3. Migration
3.1a What are the drivers and dynamics that shape the patterns and flows of migration and displacement, including economic development, climate change and conflict? How are these factors likely to affect migration patterns in the near and mid-term?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.4h What are the best approaches to enabling LMICs that hold reserves of minerals and metals critical to the clean energy transition to maximise the inclusive economic development potential of these reserves, whilst also supporting the goal of diversifying global supply chains of critical minerals?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.4d How can public policy address constraints to geographical and economic mobility for workers displaced from the energy transition and climatic shocks? What policies are required to productively integrate migrants into urban areas?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.4c What are the effects of environmental and climatic shocks on firms and households and what are their behavioural responses? What are the constraints to adaptation? How are the effects and responses shaped by inequality? What are the impacts on migration, within countries and internationally?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.3e What is the role of transport infrastructure and services in enhancing food and energy security, including the role of rural road networks in efficient distribution, impact on cost and incentives to increase productivity?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
2. Growth and Investment
2.3a What works to encourage productive cities, including enhancing the evidence base on the linkages between urban transport and employment (opportunities for employment, differentiated impacts on vulnerable groups including women, girls and people living with disabilities), health care or education? How do formal and informal transportation systems interface and how does this affect productivity and social outcomes?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026