Launch event summary and systematization (COP30, 12 November 2025)

The Just Transition Compass was launched at a networking dinner in Belém during COP30. Developed by LACLIMA and Climate Strategies with support from GIZ and the COP30 Presidency, the Compass is an operational tool designed to help negotiators and implementers translate high-level climate ambitions into fair, inclusive transitions. It focuses on governance choices regarding participation, safeguards, and the distribution of benefits and burdens to prevent the creation of new 'sacrifice zones'. The launch followed a series of dialogues in Brasília, Panama, Bonn, and Addis Ababa, and serves as a foundation for continued collaboration on policy design and financing beyond the project's conclusion on 31 December 2025.

• The Just Transition Compass is an operational guide designed to move from political aspiration to practice by addressing three core areas: defining just transitions, identifying implementation barriers, and determining the role of international actors in addressing structural inequalities at national and global levels.
• The Compass emphasizes that a 'just' transition depends on specific governance choices, including the terms of participation, the application of safeguards such as Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), the distribution of burdens and benefits, and the use of accountability mechanisms to avoid creating new sacrifice zones.
• The launch event in Belém was the culmination of a series of international and national dialogues held in Brasília, Panama, Bonn, and Addis Ababa, intended to ground international deliberations in territorial and rights-based perspectives.
• The Just Transitions in Motion Project, which produced the Compass, is funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) via the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN) and is scheduled to conclude on 31 December 2025.

APA

Climate Strategies (2025). Launch event summary and systematization (COP30, 12 November 2025). https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Just_Transition_Compass_Launch_Event_Report.pdf

Chicago

Climate Strategies. Launch event summary and systematization (COP30, 12 November 2025). 2025. https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Just_Transition_Compass_Launch_Event_Report.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatestrategies2025launch, author = {{Climate Strategies}}, title = {{Launch event summary and systematization (COP30, 12 November 2025)}}, institution = {Climate Strategies}, year = {2025}, month = nov, url = {https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Just_Transition_Compass_Launch_Event_Report.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }