From UN conference halls to the streets, JTA's 2025 year-in-review podcast episode amplifies audio highlights of the intersectional, interdependent, transborder, and multilingual advocacy of peoples and groups moving toward just transition in 2025. Don't miss these remotivating sound bites!
We are so grateful to the many funders, large and small, who make it possible for us to work hard bringing together frontline workers and fenceline communities united for justice! We have prepared a brief, easy-to-read report uplifting our biggest accomplishments of 2025.
From Vanuatu in Oceania to Montana in Turtle Island, youth from across the globe are petitioning the courts for climate justice, showing the interconnection of these legal actions and their bold leadership at multiple levels.
In this Allies Spotlight, JTA honors and expresses appreciation for aligned groups and cross constituencies that were integral in exerting pressure toward creating the Just Transition Mechanism at COP30. We will be forever grateful and changed by the testimonies and knowledges shared and the alliances and kinships we forged.
Please support the urgent fight for a just transition of workers and communities from unsafe industries and environments to good local solidarity economies. Your generosity will add momentum to crucial movements well beyond our small (but mighty!) organization. Now, more than ever, we need a just transition toward true democracy, equity, and health.
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.
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!
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.
Hot off the printing press! The JTA is honored to be part of the new edition of "enMARcha," the magazine of the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAR, in Spanish). Our executive director, José T. Bravo, wrote an essay describing how the struggle for a just transition is a transborder struggle.
On Nov. 12, 2025, the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice organized a press conference at COP30 with panelists calling for an institutional home for just transition in the UNFCCC; calling out false solutions (no Tropical Forest Forever Facility!); and demanding that there be collaboration, not competition, among Global North countries.
