Presentation
COP30 Brazilian presidency has identified the Just Transition Work Programme as one of its key priorities. The COP in Belèm can build a foundation to facilitate the delivery of just transitions to catalyse action within countries. A strong outcome would also set the basis for the 2026 review of the Work Programme, ensuring its future evolution strengthens implementation. To unlock the potential of the JTWP programme, COP30 must agree on the institutional arrangements that will guide and support just transitions, while positioning equity and fairness as key principles to address current gaps in collective ambition and action.
Key Messages
- Just transitions are not optional supplements to climate policy; they are the foundation for sustained and ambitious domestic and international cooperative action. They necessitate wholeof- economy, whole-of-society approaches and international cooperation.
- The JTWP, created at COP27, has the potential to play multiple complementary roles to ensure that the Paris Agreement is implemented to reflect equity. This requires new functions, and supportive institutional arrangements that exceed current modalities, which are limited to dialogues and roundtables.
- The JTWP should work on identifying which functions are needed to make equity and fairness actionable principles that can guide implementation within and beyond the UNFCCC, across policy areas, systems, and geographies. This may include providing guidance, facilitation, technical support, and institutional anchoring.
- Equity and fairness principles should also inform how COP30 responds to the ambition gap from current NDCs. This involves recognizing differentiated national circumstances and capabilities to close the global shortfall in short-term emissions reductions and adapting to impacts in line with CBDR-RC. It also means positioning just transitions as important ways to accelerate action and foster societal support, ensuring countries can exceed their current ambitions.
