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“We Want a Just Transition, Not Just a Transition”: JTA’s 2025 Year-in-Review Audio Highlights
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“We Want a Just Transition, Not Just a Transition”: JTA’s 2025 Year-in-Review Audio Highlights

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!

“Our Solidarity Will Deliver It”: Allies Spotlight on Just Transition-Aligned Groups Forging Solidarities Before and During COP30
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“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!
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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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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...