The planet is experiencing a climate crisis. The international community must pivot away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy. It must also do so in an equitable way, so that the most vulnerable populations do not shoulder the burden of transition.
The Global Just Transition project will provide updates on the status of Green New Deals, ecosocial pacts, and just transition plans around the world. Upcoming events will cover the European Green Deal, the South Korean Green New Deal, and new environmental organizing in Russia. We are also collaborating on a project on the financing of fossil fuel projects in Africa, the limits of economic growth and buen vivir, and the challenge of local capacity to handle the influx of Green transition funds.
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Upcoming Events
Mapping Chinese Investments in the Global South
December 9
12 pm (EST)
with Mariana Walter, Maia Seeger, and Zhao Zhong
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Event Archives
The Transformation of Industrial Politics (July 28, 2025)
with Ariel Salleh, Kennedy Manduna, and Lala Penaranda
The Future of Industrial Policy (July 8, 2025)
with Isabel Estevez, Jojo Nem Singh, and Jayati Ghosh
The Challenges of Rare Earth Extraction (June 5, 2025)
with Steven Emerman, Bruno Chareyron, Lee Tan, Volah Andriamanantenasoa
Trump’s Mineral Dreams (May 10, 2025)
with Klaus Dodds and Volodymyr Vlasiuk
China and Rare Earth Elements (January 22, 2025)
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Rare Earth Elements and the Military (December 13, 2024)
with Julie Klinger and Caryn Wolk
Urban Mining (September 19, 2024)
with Martín Lallana, Felix Best Agorvor, and Clàudia Bosch
moderated by Júlia Martí
The Race to End Fossil Fuel Production
with Esperanza Martinez, Andres Gomez O, and Raphael Hoetmer (April 4, 2024)
moderated by Liliana Buitrago
Labor and Green Colonialism
with Everline Aketch, Felipe Diaz, Igor Díaz, and Ibis Fernández (December 7, 2024)
Rare Earth Elements
Their Role in the Green Transition: Impact and Conflicts Map
November 20, 2023
Debts and Reparations: A Call to Global Action
A short video about a gathering in Jackson, Mississippi
November 2023
Climate Justice: Report from the Global South
with Nnimmo Bassey, Edgardo Lander, and Mary Ann Manahan (September 25, 2023)
Challenging Mining Corporations at the International Level
with Katharine Booth, Catherine Coumans, and Lee Tan (June 27, 2023)
How Russia’s War Against Ukraine Impacts the Planet
with Anna Ackermann and Yevheniia Zasiadko (April 27, 2023)
Geopolitics of Strategic Minerals
with Debamanyu Das (April 6, 2023)
TEQs: Could They Spark a Global Just Transition?
moderated by Jack Santa Barbara with Shaun Chamberlin, Ivonne Yanez, and Stan Cox (March 21, 2023)
Launch of the Ecosocial Energy Manifesto from the Peoples of the South
moderated by Liliana Buitrago with Maristella Svampa, Trusha Reddy, and Ashish Kothari (February 10, 2023)
Free Trade vs. Just Green Trade
moderated by Jen Moore with Luciana Ghiotto, Karen Hansen-Kuhn, and Manuel Perez Rocha (December 16, 2022)
Can the World Save the World
moderated by Miriam Lang with Jayati Ghosh, Madhuresh Kumar, and Jens Martens (December 14, 2022)
Getting the Unsustainable Here to the Sustainable There
moderated by John Feffer with Vedran Horvat, Susan Krumdieck, Simon Michaux, and Renata Nitta (December 12, 2022)
What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South
moderated by Liliana Buitrago with Alberto Acosta, Tom Athanasiou, and Meena Raman (September 28, 2022)
The Future of China’s Green Revolution
moderated by Tobita Chow with Liu Hongqiao and Jennifer Turner (September 21, 2022)
Can the Green New Deal Go Local?
moderated by Rebeca Leber with Luis Aguirre-Torres, Julia Peak, and Susie Strife (August 9, 2022)
Redesigning the Economy for Sustainability and Social Justice
with Ashish Kothari, Dorothy Guerrero, Katharine Nora Farrell, and Josh Farley (July 28, 2022)
Rare Earth Elements: The Global Supply Chain
with Jojo Nem Singh (July 15, 2022)
Do We Need a Universal Basic Income?
with Ruben Lo Vuolo, Erin Coltrera, Ailynn Torress, and Amaia Perez Orozco (May 10, 2022)
Rare Earth Elements: Q and A
with Julie Klinger (May 4, 2022)
The U.S. Green New Deal: Promises, Policies, Prospects
with Saul Levin, Rajiv Sicora, and Susie Strife, moderated by Brett Fleishman (April 12, 2022)
The Impact of Green New Deals on Latin America (y en espanol)
with Ulrich Brand, Esperanza Martinez, Rajiv Sicora, and Enrique Viale, moderated by Miriam Lang and Jen Moore (February 16, 2022)
India and the Future of the Planet
with Jayati Ghosh, Ashish Kothari, and Basav Sen (February 2, 2022)
A Just Transition for Latin America (y en espanol)
with Carmen Aliaga, Pablo Bertinat, Breno Bringel, and Tatiana Roa
and moderated by Manuel Perez-Rocha and Liliana Buitrago (January 19, 2022)
Russia and the Green New Deal: Light at the End of the Tunnel?
with Vasily Yablokov, Tatiana Lanshina, and Arshak Makichyan (December 10, 2021)
Korea’s Green New Deal: Myths and Realities
with Lee Taedong, Kim Joojin, Hong Jong Ho, and Kwon Yoo-Jung and moderated by Koohan Paik-Mander (November 17, 2021)
The European Green Deal: A Step Forward, Sideways, or Backward?
with Ann Pettifor, Dusan Pajevic, Asad Rehman, and Clara Bourgin (October 12, 2021)
Articles and Reports
After COP29: The Climate Negotiations Reach Their Crisis
Who pays is one of the oldest question on the climate equity agenda. It’s time to answer it properly.
Can Recycling Save the Clean Energy Revolution?
Short answer: it’s necessary but not sufficient.
Environmental Conspiracies, The State, and Nature
Behind the environmental conspiracies concocted during the current U.S. presidential campaign lies a belief that humans should dominate nature.
Getting from NIMBY to YIMBY
We should be asking not what the planet can do for us but what we can do for the planet.
Geopolitics, Thy Name Is Climate Change
The costs of dealing with the effects of climate change dwarf global expenditures on war.
Kenya Protests: A Wake-Up Call to a Failing International Financial Architecture
Multilateral lending is not breaking the cycle of debt.
Broken Promises: Western Hypocrisy in the Global Minerals Scramble
Western governments need to enforce strong regulation that ensures responsible mining and holds accountable all companies involved in extracting and sourcing minerals.
AI May Kill Us All, But Not the Way You Think
The call is coming from inside…your computer!
The Energy of the People
A new music video urges an energy transition by the people, for the people.
The Global South’s Three-Body Problem
The Global North has its solutions to the problems of debt, development, and climate change. Here are some other options.
In other outlets:
L’avenir de la révolution verte chinoise, Investig’action, November 14, 2022
The Five Plagues Testing Humanity, TomDispatch, March 30, 2022
Hacia una transición justa en América Latina, La Jornada, January 31, 2022 (en espanol)
The Trouble With Transitions, TomDispatch, October 5, 2021 (y en español)