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Series Co-developing the energy transition with defenders
During COP30, the world faces a critical question: how do we safeguard human rights in the context of the increasing global demand for critical energy transition minerals? Elisa Morgera stresses that environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) – who are increasingly seen as obstacles to climate progress – are experts who should not only be protected but also recognised as essential partners and leaders in designing a just energy transition
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Series Between Belém and Brasília: COP30 and Brazil’s challenge to turn words into action
As Brazil prepares to host COP30 in Belém, it faces a defining test: will it lead the world toward a just energy transition — or repeat the extractive mistakes of its past? BHRRC's Brazil Researcher and Representative Marina Novaes and Conectas Human Rights' Advisor for the Defense of Socio-Environmental Rights Thales Machado set out what's needed for Brazil to match up to its climate ambitions
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Series COP30 and the future of Europe and Central Asia’s just energy transition
With transition minerals expected to feature at a UN climate summit for the first time, there is a chance for COP30 to recognise the urgency of transition minerals governance, write Ella Skybenko and Johannes Blankenbach
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Series Climate solutions for all? Southeast Asia’s nickel boom offers lessons for COP30
Human rights must be at the centre of climate action. In the Asia-Pacific region, writes Pochoy Labog, we are seeing supposed climate solutions compounding the problem. Indonesia offers valuable lessons for COP30.
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Series COP30 and the just transition: Centring communities in Latin America’s energy future
With vast reserves of transition minerals and huge renewable energy potential, Latin America is at the centre of the energy transition. But in this region of deep contrasts, inequalities, rich ecosystems, and strong community memory, a just transition must be built around communities, not extracted from them.
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Series Just transition in Africa: from a moral to a legal imperative
The process for achieving a just energy transition demands increasing scrutiny in the African context, writes Joseph Kibugu
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Series Benefit sharing in wind and solar projects must become the norm. The Just Transition Work Programme is a unique opportunity
With the adoption of the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) at COP27 in 2022, the scope and ambition of just transition negotiations reached a new level, and expectations have built for COP30 in Brazil to deliver concrete decisions that advance just transition pathways through international cooperation. The JTWP must champion “people-centred” transition pathways that put people’s needs at the heart of all climate action by prioritising support for fair and equitable benefit sharing and co-ownership models, as an example of a powerful alternative to exploitative models.
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Series From Climate Week to COP30: Rewiring the energy transition from the ground up
New York Climate week highlighted great opportunities and challenges for COP30 in a month’s time, and especially for the Just Transition Work Programme, write Michael Clements and Phil Bloomer
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