Just Transition Finance Lab engagement at COP30 in Belém, Brazil

Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang will be representing the Just Transition Finance Lab at COP30, seeking to highlight the intersection between financial system transformation and just transition processes and outcomes through her participation. She will be present at the negotiations and several side events (details to follow). 

Jodi-Ann’s engagement in Belém will focus on three main areas:

1. Policy coherence and coordination: supporting efforts to align the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) with wider climate-finance frameworks, helping to establish stronger links between social equity objectives, financial flows, financial architecture reform, and national transition strategies.
2. Knowledge and practice exchange: contributing to discussions, dialogues and knowledge platforms that advance policy development for financing just transitions, including mechanisms for strengthening transparency, labour protection and rights-based perspectives in transition planning. 
3. Actionable finance pathways: engaging stakeholders and rights-holders to explore concrete approaches to operationalising just transition finance, including non-debt-inducing support, technology transfer, inclusive participation and economic transition pathways. 

Jodi-Ann will draw on the findings in her recent report for the Lab, Headwinds and structural constraints: mapping forces challenging just transition finance, which identities four main headwinds impeding a just transition: political legitimacy, fiscal retreat, governance fragmentation and transparency capture. The report links these issues to deeper systemic challenges in how global finance is governed, how power is distributed, and how justice is defined and embedded. 

COP30 represents a pivotal opportunity to operational just transition agenda and strengthen its connection with global climate finance. The Just Transition Finance Lab’s work contributes to these efforts by providing analytical and policy frameworks to address the structural barriers that hinder equitable transitions.