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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!
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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!

November 24, 2025November 29, 2025Conference of the Profiteers (COP), Environmental Justice, False Solutions, Featured, Just Transition, News Releasesby

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

November 23, 2025November 23, 2025Conference of the Profiteers (COP), Environmental Justice, False Solutions, Featured, Just Transition, News Releases, Videos & Podcastsby

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

November 21, 2025November 21, 2025Conference of the Profiteers (COP), Environmental Justice, False Solutions, Featured, Just Transition, News Releasesby

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.

Seated panelists describe movement struggles at MAR event
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Latest “enMARcha” Magazine Issue on Internationalism Includes an Article by José T. Bravo!

November 17, 2025November 17, 2025Conference of the Profiteers (COP), Environmental Justice, False Solutions, Featured, Just Transition, News Releasesby

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.

Panel with five speakers, seated, with UNFCCC signage in background.
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JTA’s Nona Chai Calls for Making an Institutional Home for Just Transition at COP30

November 12, 2025November 12, 2025Conference of the Profiteers (COP), Environmental Justice, False Solutions, Featured, Just Transition, Toxic Products, Videos & Podcastsby

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.

Top portion of an online article that includes people holding a banner and displaying flags from throughout the world.
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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

November 11, 2025November 11, 2025Conference of the Profiteers (COP), Environmental Justice, False Solutions, Featured, Hoodwinked in the Hothouse, Just Transition, News Releasesby

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

November 5, 2025November 5, 2025Conference of the Profiteers (COP), Environmental Justice, False Solutions, Featured, Just Transition, News Releases, Toxic Chemicalsby

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.

UN Bonn, Germany, climate justice panel, June 2025
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Allies Spotlight: The MAR and MAB Connect a Transborder Movement Fighting Extractivism and False Solutions

September 16, 2025September 19, 2025Conference of the Profiteers (COP), Environmental Justice, False Solutions, Featured, Just Transitionby

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...