An article by journalist Emma Bryce overviews the problems with consensus in Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, quoting several individuals, including JTA's Nona Chai and Fernando Tormos-Aponte.
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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.
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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!
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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 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.
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The Just Transition Alliance Podcast Is Here!
We are excited to announce the release of the Just Transition Alliance Podcast! Check out episodes that have already dropped on our Buzzsprout page, and read more about the show!
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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.
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Labor Day Weekend Must Include Commemorating 20 Years Since Hurricane Katrina
Labor Day weekend marked 20 years since Hurricane Katrina plowed through New Orleans and the Gulf South. As many of the most impacted people and communities powerfully testify, Hurricane Katrina must be remembered as much more than a Category 5 storm...
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Press Conference Co-organized and Facilitated by JTA: Justice-Aligned Groups Demand Just Transition, as Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Fail Most-Harmed Communities
The following media advisory was issued on August 13, 2025, prior to the UNEP decision that INC-5.2 would not yield a Global Plastics Treaty agreement. As groups most affected by the injustices and harms from the full impact cycle of plastics, we are raising the alarm. The Global Plastics Treaty negotiations are failing us and...