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Frontline Workers, Fenceline Communities United for Justice

What We Do

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Ground our work in organizing support and community building.

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Safely shift toward a sustainable economy to scale.

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Transition away from unsustainable methods and practices.

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Transition to local and regional economic models.

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Ensure a just transition guided by the right policies.

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Who Benefits?

Workers on the Frontlines

Helping those in service, energy, farmworker and chemical sectors influence policy solutions that affect their jobs.

People of Color, Indigenous People and Low-Income Communities

We aim to ameliorate the lack of education and knowledge of choices when dealing with unwarranted toxic trespass.

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About Us

The Just Transition Alliance was founded in 1997 as a coalition of environmental justice organizations and labor unions.

Together with frontline workers and community members who live along the fenceline of polluting industries, we create healthy workplaces and communities.

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In Case You Missed It

JTA’s COP30 Recap Zine: A Just Transition Win, Numerous Problems and Injustices, and Why We Must Keep Fighting for a Just Transition Fossil Fuel Phaseout!

JTA’s COP30 Recap Zine: A Just Transition Win, Numerous Problems and Injustices, and Why We Must Keep Fighting for a Just Transition Fossil Fuel Phaseout!

Read our digital zine, recapping COP30! The fight against corporate capture, extractivism, false solutions, and green colonialism continues, as does the struggle for climate justice, frontline-led just transition, and upholding UNDRIP and UNDROP. Thank you to everyone who worked with us during the MAR Encuentro, the Peoples' Summit, and UN Climate Summit negotiations and actions! Our collective care and dedication to intersectional justice, demonstrated in our demands, alliances, and kinships, will guide our paths forward.

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COP30 Establishes a Just Transition Mechanism: We Celebrate and Plan for the Hard Work Ahead

BIG NEWS! The persistent demands and labor of grassroots movements and frontline groups resulted in COP30 creating a just transition mechanism! This decision means there finally will be a UN institutional home for doing this vital work! While JTA welcomes this decision, the fight for a just transition and climate justice is far from over. Learn about the process behind the negotiations and the struggle ahead from JTA Policy Lead Fernando Tormos-Aponte!

COP30 May Establish a Just Transition Mechanism, but Further Progress is Needed to Achieve a Participatory, Inclusive, and Just Transition

COP30 May Establish a Just Transition Mechanism, but Further Progress is Needed to Achieve a Participatory, Inclusive, and Just Transition

Read the JTA's response to the Nov. 21, 2025, decision by the Just Transition Work Progamme (JTWP) to create a just transition mechanism. The draft text both responds to the demands of many Indigenous Peoples, frontline workers, and the most impacted communities, while lacking the processes, principles, and fundamental components necessary for ensuring a just transition.

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