"We Want a Just Transition, Not Just a Transition": JTA's 2025 Year-in-Review Audio Highlights

From UN conference halls to the streets, this episode amplifies audio highlights of the intersectional, interdependent, transborder, and multilingual advocacy of peoples and groups moving toward just transition in 2025. Listen to sound bites from INC-5.2 in Geneva, Switzerland, where Global Plastics Treaty negotiations took place. We also share audio from Bonn, Germany, during the intersessional leading up to COP30, and from Belém, Brazil, during the IV International Meeting of People Affected by Dams and the Climate Crisis, the Peoples’ Summit opening plenary of the Just, Popular, and Inclusive Transition axis, the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice, and the UN Climate Summit. Don't miss the origin story of 'just transition'; testimony demonstrating the inseparability of decolonization, demilitarization, and climate justice; analysis on the creation of the Just Transition Mechanism within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; and more! The episode concludes with JTA Executive Director José T. Bravo in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, where JTA joined with Taproot Earth and other groups during the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The voices featured in this year-in-review episode are many. Listen to Aakaluk Blatchford, Tom Goldtooth, and Chief Ninawa Huni Kui, with the Indigenous Environmental Network, Francisco Kelvim Nobre da Silva, of the Movimiento de Afectados por Represas/Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, Rachitaa Gupta, with the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, and JTA's José T. Bravo, Nona Chai, Fernando Tormos-Aponte, and Lara Aumann. Thank you to the many aligned peoples and groups we move alongside toward just transition!  The inspiration for this episode's quoted title comes from JTA Policy Lead Fernando Tormos-Aponte, who expressed, "We want a just transition, not just a transition," during a decolonization and demilitarization side-event panel at COP30.Audio clips from Lara Aumann, Aakaluk Blatchford, Tori Cress, Mónica Flores Hernández, Dylan Kava, Tyler Norman, Fernando Tormos-Aponte, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and World Animal ProtectionPodcast edited and produced by Catalina de OnísFollow JTA on Social Media! Instagram (@jtalliance) Facebook Bluesky Visit the JTA website! Learn about the Podcast's Musical Sounds! Artist: Xica Sonica Album: 13 Rabbit - Ancestral Pulse / Future Memory