Projetos (Transições Justas)

The Just Transitions in Motion project was created with the purpose of translating just transition into real-world practices, voices, and experiences. Throughout 2025, the initiative brought together more than 200 actors – including governments, negotiators, the private sector, unions, youth, traditional communities, and academia – in four participatory workshops held in Panama, Germany, Ethiopia, and Brazil. These listening and co-creation processes allowed for the identification of challenges and pathways to just transitions, connecting the technical dimension of negotiations to the lived reality of those who feel the effects of climate change most acutely. By fostering international collaboration, sharing knowledge, and promoting recommended and scalable practices, the project strengthens the link between global and local climate action, encouraging a transition to low-carbon and climate-resilient economies that is inclusive and equitable.

The Compass for Just Transitions is the analytical work resulting from consultations, academic evidence, and practical experiences, and aims to guide governments, international institutions, negotiators, and experts in translating high-level commitments into equitable and actionable strategies. While many frameworks and tools exist, this initiative stands out for focusing on co-created knowledge derived directly from stakeholder engagement, rather than a predefined research agenda. The Compass identifies common principles and key barriers, and proposes how to advance implementation, clarifying important conceptual and policy issues that arose in the negotiations. It explores what “Just Transition” means in practice, the barriers that prevent its realization, and opportunities for global cooperation to address structural inequalities, ensuring fair, inclusive, and sustainable decarbonization processes.

COP30 takes place at a crucial moment for global climate action, marked by the urgency of increasing ambition and the need to reconnect international negotiations to people's real lives. While climate action is underway around the world, it remains insufficient in pace and scale. Faced with worsening climate impacts and a challenging geopolitical landscape, the conference is a test for multilateral cooperation and represents an opportunity to reinforce the commitments made in the Paris Agreement.

One of the goals of the Brazilian Presidency is to bring the climate debate closer to local realities and everyday demands, demonstrating that the transition to low-carbon economies can – and should – generate concrete benefits for workers, communities, and territories. In this context, strengthening the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) is a central step to ensure that the implementation of the Paris Agreement is socially just and inclusive. A robust Just Transition Action Agenda will be fundamental to driving implementation and generating real impact in the world.

What are the objectives of the Just Transitions in Motion project?

To provide a space for multi-sectoral alliances that support Just Transitions: to promote meetings that bring together governments, the private sector, grassroots movements, traditional communities, and academia to co-create best practices and develop shared responsibility for Just Transitions.

Enabling the implementation of Just Transitions through multilateral cooperation: articulating political and technical debate in international forums, contributing to the incorporation of the social dimension in multilateral processes and promoting concrete mechanisms to support the implementation of Just Transitions.

Guiding Just Transition strategies at multiple levels: combining academic evidence and stakeholder engagement to build a Compass for Just Transitions, a document that identifies barriers to national implementation and points out how international actors can contribute to overcoming them.

LACLIMA is a global organization, born in the Global South, that acts strategically on the climate agenda through four complementary axes: through climate policy, strengthening public policies; through thematic axes, researching and producing content to enhance the debate among all actors; through climate paradiplomacy, actively working within multilateralism; and through the LACLIMA Network, working at the forefront of knowledge where climate change law is fostered. LACLIMA's areas of activity encompass a wide range of topics related to climate action, including: the UNFCCC international climate regime and the Paris Agreement, mitigation efforts, climate justice and just transition, adaptation strategies, loss and damage, carbon markets, transparency and climate finance, climate litigation, among others. All of LACLIMA's efforts aim to promote effective climate action.

Climate Strategies is an international, non-profit research network that brings together a broad group of world-renowned researchers. The organization catalyzes action by providing strong evidence for policymakers and facilitating meaningful interactions between policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders. We offer evidence-based public policy recommendations and structure our projects around collaboration, ensuring the representation of diverse actors in research and policy dialogues. We work to strengthen capacity on key issues, working closely with national institutions and leading researchers around the world, offering a space for intellectual leadership on core climate issues, including Just Transitions.

GIZ (German Society for International Cooperation) is a global service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development, with over 50 years of experience. GIZ works in close partnership with various actors to deliver effective solutions and sustainably improve living conditions worldwide. GIZ is a wholly owned public utility company of the Federal Republic of Germany.

This project is supported by GIZ through the International Climate Initiative (IKI), on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office (FFO) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE).

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Just Transitions in Motion

This project promotes just transitions by bringing together different stakeholders in dialogues that go beyond formal climate negotiations, building bridges to make the decarbonization process as equitable as possible. With the support of the COP30 Presidency and the German government, it fosters global collaboration to co-create a Compass for Just Transitions—a guide that connects global debates with local strategies and guides implementation measures with a focus on justice.

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Latin American Climate Lawyers Initiative for Mobilizing Action

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