COP31: Priorities on Just Transition take shape at the end of week 1

Résumé détaillé

Developing countries at COP31 advocate for a two-tier Just Transition Mechanism with predictable, grant-based funding, technology transfer, and capacity-building. Disagreements persist over financing, food security, & trade measures, as nations push to extend Just Transition Work Programme beyond 2026. Week 2 negotiations will focus on resolving key differences and finalizing mechanism's mandate.

Negotiations on the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) have begun at the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Antalya, Türkiye, building on a process that has evolved over the past year following the adoption of the Just Transition Mechanism (JTM) at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

Deliberations have since continued under the JTWP, with questions raised during earlier consultations, particularly around institutional arrangements and the support required by developing countries, now moving to the negotiating table in Antalya.

Discussions centred on three broad ‘buckets’: Operationalising the JTM; reviewing the JTWP and deciding its future; and the outcomes of the fifth and sixth JTWP dialogues, which focused on food security, agriculture and oceans, and industrial transition and global value chains, respectively.

Operationalising the JTM emerged as the principal priority for most developing countries. The African Group of Negotiators (AGN), G77 and China, Least Developed Countries and Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs) called for a party-driven, two-tier mechanism under the authority of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, or the CMA.

The proposed mechanism would comprise a political oversight tier and a technical or implementation tier. Developing countries argued that its role must extend beyond coordination to providing practical support, including technical assistance, capacity-building, technology transfer and access to finance.

A central point of contention was the mechanism's financing role. The European Union (EU), Environmental Integrity Group (EIG) and Japan favoured leveraging existing financial arrangements to avoid duplication.

They argued that its role must extend beyond coordination, to providing practical support, including technical assistance, capacity-building, technology transfer and access to finance.

A central point of contention…

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