‘Just Transition Must Make Climate Work for People Living its Consequences’ By Joyce Chimbi Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

We have seen stalled climate action, widening inequality, and people left behind. At COP27, the establishment of the Just Transition Work Programme was a crucial step toward putting justice at the heart of climate action. But words alone cannot hold back the tide. —Open letter on Just Transition https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/just-transition-must-make-climate-work-for-people-living-its-consequences/ BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 14 2025 (IPS) - An open letter by more than 1,000 organizations from 106 countries, including trade unions, Indigenous leaders, feminist and youth movements, Afro-descendants, peasant groups, environmental advocates, disability networks and community organizations, to all States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is calling for a people-centered Just Transition. Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.