Negotiators came together in Bonn to work on the Just Transition Mechanism, a landmark achievement from COP30 and the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP). The Mechanism presents a significant opportunity to advance just transitions for communities and workers.
But the real work for the LGMA constituency lies in ensuring that global and national commitments and policies connect with local realities. To deliver meaningful results for workers and communities, the LGMA is advocating for embedding multilevel and whole-of-government approaches into the Mechanism. We are championing the role of subnational governments as essential partners to ensuring that a ‘whole-of-society’ transition is not just an ambition, but a reality felt on the ground.
The LGMA brought a Zero Draft position to SB64, that included robust recommendations on the Just Transition negotiations and met with Parties and fellow constituencies, and closely followed the negotiations to bring our key messages into the talks.
Despite slow progress on the Mechanism negotiations, we saw widespread Party support for the key role subnational governments play in advancing just transitions and their calls for a stronger collaboration across different levels of government. In an informal note advanced to COP31 from Bonn, there was recognition of the role of urban and peri-urban areas to food security and of subnational governments, relating to the future Mechanism.
In the final interventions in the process, we encouraged Parties to maintain these positive references and advocated to include all constituencies in the Mechanism to demonstrate in practice how to deliver a whole-of society and people-centric approach to a just transition.
Additionally, looking towards COP31, we are seeking an ambitious outcome for the Just Transition Mechanism that can deliver for communities and workers, and we are ready to actively contribute to the future work under the Mechanism by facilitating multilevel dialogue, bringing local expertise, data, practical lessons and subnational leadership to bridge implementation gaps.
Negotiators came together in Bonn to work on the Just Transition Mechanism, a landmark achievement from COP30 and the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP). The Mechanism presents a significant opportunity to advance just transitions for communities and workers.
But the real work for the LGMA constituency lies in ensuring that global and national commitments and policies connect with local realities. To deliver meaningful results for workers and communities, the LGMA is advocating for embedding multilevel and whole-of-government approaches into the Mechanism. We are championing the role of subnational governments as essential partners to ensuring that a ‘whole-of-society’ transition is not just an ambition, but a reality felt on the ground.
The LGMA brought a Zero Draft position to SB64, that included robust recommendations on the Just Transition negotiations and met with Parties and fellow constituencies, and closely followed the negotiations to bring our key messages into the talks.
Despite slow progress on the Mechanism negotiations, we saw widespread Party support for the key role subnational governments play in advancing just transitions and their calls for a stronger collaboration across different levels of government. In an informal note advanced to COP31 from Bonn, there was recognition of the role of urban and peri-urban areas to food security and of subnational governments, relating to the future Mechanism.
In the final interventions in the process, we encouraged Parties to maintain these positive references and advocated to include all constituencies in the Mechanism to demonstrate in practice how to deliver a whole-of society and people-centric approach to a just transition.
Additionally, looking towards COP31, we are seeking an ambitious outcome for the Just Transition Mechanism that can deliver for communities and workers, and we are ready to actively contribute to the future work under the Mechanism by facilitating multilevel dialogue, bringing local expertise, data, practical lessons and subnational leadership to bridge implementation gaps.
The LGMA’s consistent message has been that by working with subnational governments, national governments have an opportunity to enhance policy coherence and effectively translate national commitments into place-based implementation strategies, delivering tangible outcomes and preventing the exacerbation of inequalities while increasing public support for climate action. We hope to see this reflected in the decisions at COP31.
