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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Zohran Mamdani, a 33 year-old Muslim Democratic Socialist, won the mayoral primary in New York City. He beat an establishment Democrat in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the world, in a grassroots campaign that proved that even funding from super-elites is not enough to overcome sound ideas.
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.
