How can we turn global Just Transition commitments into real change?

The Just Transition Forum Asia 2026 will unpack the major COP30 breakthrough on the Just Transition Mechanism and explore how it can advance fair finance, support the fossil fuel phase-out and drive practical action across Asia and beyond.

The forum will bring together experts and practitioners from governments, civil society, labour movements, Indigenous Peoples’ organisations, academia, think tanks, businesses and international organisations. Together, they will exchange experiences, highlight initiatives already creating change and identify practical ways to turn commitments into action.

Across 11 insightful sessions – two plenary panels and nine Transformational Labs hosted by organisations from across the region – participants will examine global, regional and country-specific dimensions of a Just Transition, including gender-just urban transformation, sustainable mobility, youth-trade union collaboration, workers’ rights, inclusive energy transitions, community ownership and locally led climate action.

Join the discussion, share your perspectives and help shape practical pathways towards a more just, inclusive and sustainable future.

2:00–3:30 PM | Opening panel: From Belém to Antalya via Santa Marta

3:30–4:50 PM | Transformational labs (parallel sessions)

• Lab 1: Prospects for a Just Transition Mechanism (Hosted by FES Berlin)

• Lab 2: Socio-Ecological Urban Transformation: Accessibility of Urban Spaces for Women’s Work (Hosted by FES Pakistan)

• Lab 3: Just Transition Pathways from Bangkok Climate Action Week and Krabi Goes Green (Hosted by FES Thailand)

4:40–6:00 PM | Transformational labs (parallel sessions)

• Lab 4: Shaping the Future of Mobility: Building a Just and Sustainable Transition through Youth–Trade Union Collaboration in Bangladesh (Hosted by OSHE Foundation and YouthNet Global)

• Lab 5: Clean Energy Transitions in Asia: Stories of Progress from the Ground Up (Hosted by the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, CANSEA and NGO Forum on Cambodia)

2:00–3:20 PM | Transformational labs (parallel sessions)

• Lab 6: Securing a Just Transition: Collective Bargaining in a Weak Institutional Landscape (Hosted by the Centre for Energy, Environment and People: CEEP)

• Lab 7: Leaving No One Behind: Integrating GEDSI Principles into Just Energy Transition Pathways in Southeast Asia (Hosted by CANSEA)

3:20–4:40 PM | Transformational labs (parallel sessions)

• Lab 8: Engineering Asset Democracy: Operationalizing Community Co-Ownership and Regenerative Finance in Asia’s Energy Transition (Hosted by FES Philippines and Responsible Energy Initiative Philippines)

• Lab 9: The IKI JET Project: A Model for Implementing Just Energy Transition Globally (Hosted by CANSEA)

4:40–6:00 PM | Closing panel: Financing the Just Transition Mechanism and the Fossil Fuel Phase-Out