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!
Category: Featured
“Our Solidarity Will Deliver It”: Allies Spotlight on Just Transition-Aligned Groups Forging Solidarities Before and During COP30
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.
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.
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.
JTA Publishes Article with the North American Congress on Latin America, Calling for the Creation of a Just Transition Mechanism at COP30
This JTA article, published by the North American Congress on Latin America, discusses the imperative of creating a just transition mechanism at COP30 and calls for rejecting false solutions, including the so-called Tropical Forest Forever Facility.
“What we are struggling for is the right thing to do”: JTA’s José Bravo Speaks at “Frontline Movement Exchange” during New York City Climate Week
During New York City Climate Week 2025, JTA’s Nona Chai and José T. Bravo participated in many conversations and events dedicated to building movement momentum and people power toward just transition and climate justice.
Allies Spotlight: The MAR and MAB Connect a Transborder Movement Fighting Extractivism and False Solutions
In this Allies Spotlight, we feature the Movimiento de Afectados por Represas (MAR) and the Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB). The Spanish and Portuguese names translate in English to the Movement of People Affected by Dams...
The Struggle for a Just Transition away from Plastics Continues
The 6th round of global plastic treaty talks, held in Geneva, made it clear that achieving a strong treaty to address the plastic pollution crisis is facing significant obstacles from petrostates and industries. Our fight must continue to make a just transition possible...
JTA Welcomes Newest Board Member: Alejandría Lyons!
JTA members are delighted to announce a new board member! Alejandría Lyons is a Xicana organizer from Los Lunas, New Mexico, and is the Coordinator for the New Mexico No False Solutions Coalition.
The Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations, by Design, Result in Continued Harms to Indigenous Peoples, Waste Pickers and Trade Unions, Youth, and Affected Communities, but We Have Solutions
The negotiations in Geneva made achieving an inclusive just transition impossible.









