JUST TRANSITION COMPASS A FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION AND INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION

The Just Transition Compass establishes a framework to move from high-level climate commitments to scalable, justice-focused implementation. It identifies four core elements of a just transition—restorative, distributive, procedural, and climate justice—and argues that domestic transitions require international cooperation to avoid economic spillovers and financial inequalities. The document proposes the creation of a permanent Just Transition Coordination Unit within the UNFCCC to reduce fragmentation, align financial flows, and provide capacity support to countries.

• There is broad international and cross-sectoral consensus on four essential elements of a Just Transition: restorative justice (addressing underlying causes of inequality), distributive justice (ensuring benefits are shared and negative impacts on workers and communities are managed), procedural justice (inclusive stakeholder involvement in defining development pathways), and climate justice (managing the shift to a Paris goal-aligned society to prevent worsening inequality).
• International actors can support national Just Transition implementation through four primary levers: increasing targeted climate finance for social and economic integration, providing technical support for coordination mechanisms (like inter-ministerial task forces), sharing practical frameworks and case studies (such as the EU's Just Transition Mechanism), and offering long-term training to build national analytical capacity.
• While Just Transition efforts have primarily focused on the energy sector and fossil fuel phase-out due to lower complexity, the framework advocates for a holistic, region-wide approach across all sectors, including agriculture and transport, where livelihoods are often more informal and precarious.
• The document argues that the current UNFCCC approach to Just Transitions is fragmented and proposes four points for agreement within the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP): establishing a permanent coordination body, agreeing on simple high-level principles, integrating Just Transitions into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and updating financial arrangements to explicitly include activities like reskilling.

APA

Atteridge, A., Duarte, J., Ghosh, B., Alonso, A. P. G., Guiao, M., Harry, S., Hogbin, J.-A., Kempis, N., Klinksy, S., Gonlves, V. K., Frasson, C. M. R., Hankus, O. O. A., & Hansen, B. (2025). JUST TRANSITION COMPASS A FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION AND INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION. Climate Strategies. https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/JT-COMPASS-EXECSUM-FINAL.pdf

Chicago

Atteridge, Aaron, Jessica Duarte, Bipashyee Ghosh, Ana Paola Gonzalez Alonso, Marina Guiao, Steven Harry, Julie-Anne Hogbin, et al. JUST TRANSITION COMPASS A FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION AND INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION. Climate Strategies, 2025. https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/JT-COMPASS-EXECSUM-FINAL.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{atteridge2025just, author = {Atteridge, Aaron and Duarte, Jessica and Ghosh, Bipashyee and Alonso, Ana Paola Gonzalez and Guiao, Marina and Harry, Steven and Hogbin, Julie-Anne and Kempis, Nicole and Klinksy, Sonja and Gonlves, Veronica Korber and Frasson, Caroline Medeiros Rocha and Hankus, Oluwasola Omoju Adela and Hansen, Brynn}, title = {{JUST TRANSITION COMPASS A FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION AND INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION}}, institution = {Climate Strategies}, year = {2025}, month = nov, url = {https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/JT-COMPASS-EXECSUM-FINAL.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }