Dubai gave us the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP), a gig covering domestic and international cooperation to support workers and communities in multiple ways. But we left without agreeing on the band or the tunes — how the JTWP should be structured and which themes it will cover. That’s why here in Bonn we are collecting all the options to be ready for Baku and then put the full orchestra in place to have a massive party in Brazil.
To get ready for the show, this is what ECO says you should be looking for:
- Ensure a fully balanced and transparent choice of topics for the dialogues (for example from an agreed shortlist of themes);
- Have the next dialogue on comprehensive economy-wide just transition plans;
- Promptly develop preparatory reports before each dialogue and summary documents that capture what is discussed;
- Agree that intersessional time is required to respond to the scale and urgency of the discussions, and agree as well that the group of experts can steer the work in-between sessions; and
- Have the JTWP provide recommendations and guidance to constituted bodies and other relevant workstreams and processes outside the UNFCCC.
It’s time to listen to the beat, be creative, and enable the JTWP to deliver outcomes for real people in the real world by COP30 in Brazil – the Baku warmup song needs to be in sync with justice!