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It’s Giving Season. JTA Needs Your Help!

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.

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!
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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.

A large crowd gathers at COP30 with a banner stating "Just Transition Rising"
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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
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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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Latest “enMARcha” Magazine Issue on Internationalism Includes an Article by José T. Bravo!

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.

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JTA’s Nona Chai Calls for Making an Institutional Home for Just Transition at COP30

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.

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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.

UN Bonn, Germany, climate justice panel, June 2025
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Just Transition Alliance and Indigenous Environmental Network at COP30 to Refuse False Solutions and to Advance Frontline-Led, Legally-binding Just Transition

Just Transition Alliance (JTA) and Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) delegates are on the ground in Belém, Brazil, at COP30 to refuse false solutions that perpetuate environmental and climate colonialism; to call for a justice-based, frontline-led fossil fuel phaseout; and to ensure the implementation of legally binding and enforceable just transition decisions.

“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
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“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.