SB 62 Bonn Climate Change Conference: Just transition event round-up

The 62nd sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB 62)—also known as UNFCCC’s Bonn Climate Change Conference—will take place from 16 to 26 June 2025 in Bonn, Germany. The conference serves as a halfway point between COP 29 in Baku and COP 30 in Belém.

The conference also coincides with the Third Dialogue Under the United Arab Emirates Just Transition Work Programme, which takes place in Panama City from 22 to 23 May 2025. The focus of this dialogue will be “approaches to enhancing adaptation and climate resilience in the context of just transitions.”

A number of side events will take place throughout Bonn Climate Change Conference, several of which focus on just transition. Here is a comprehensive list of just transition side events in Bonn.

June 16

12:00–13:15

Can Just Transitions Help Rebuild Trust in Multilateral Cooperation?

Location: Berlin Room

Organisers: Climate Strategies; Transparency International Trinidad and Tobago

15:00–16:15

Comunidades Locales: El reconocimiento de sus derechos y la ruta hacia la COP30

Location: Kaminzimmer

Organisers: Red Mexicana de Organizaciones Campesinas Forestales A.C. (RED MOCAF); Institute Society, Population and Nature; Native Amazon Operation (OPAN)

June 17

15:00–16:15

Driving Accountability for Youth- and Gender-Responsive Climate Action

Location: Berlin Room

Organisers: Care About Climate, Inc; United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

16:30–17:45

World Green Skills Collaborative: Connecting Local Designs with Sustainable Climate Action

Location: Bonn Room

Organisers: Connected Advocacy for Empowerment and Youth Development Initiative (Connected Advocacy); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Sikh Human Rights Group

June 18

15:00–16:15

Towards a Just Transition: Financing Pathways from Coal to Sustainable Energy

Location: Berlin Room

Organisers: International Atomic Energy Agency; Economic Commission for Africa

16:30–17:45

Just Transition at COP 30: Civil Society and Trade Unions Call for Urgent Action

Location: Kaminzimmer

Organisers: International Trade Union Confederation; ActionAid International Foundation; Climate Action Network International (CAN International); Klimadelegation e.V.; War on Want

June 19

13:30–14:45

Fostering Social Dialogue for a Just Transition to a Resilient Low-Carbon Economy

Location: Berlin Room

Organisers: Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

June 21

10:30–11:45

Gender-Transformative Approaches to Just Transition in the NDCs, the GAP and Beyond

Location: Berlin Room

Organisers: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V.; Community Links and Human Empowerment Initiative; Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; ONG CEUS Chile; Women Engage for a Common Future – International Foundation

15:00–16:15

Advancing Human Rights, Democratic Participation, and Accountability in a Just Transition

Location: Bonn Room

Organisers: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance; London School of Economics and Political Science

June 24

15:00–16:15

Just Transition in the Global South: Business Initiatives and Policies for Sustainable Prosperity

Location: Bonn Room

Organisers: Global Compact Network Brazil; Climalab; Climate Ventures

June 25

10:30–11:45

Ensuring Protection and Participation of Environmental Defenders Through a Global People’s Assembly

Location: Bonn Room

Organisers: cambiaMO s.coop.mad.; Natural Justice

16:30–17:45

Real Solutions: A System Transformation Approach to Equitable and Just Transition

Location: Kaminzimmer

Organisers: IBON International Foundation Inc; Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation; Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development; Institute for Socioeconomics Studies

June 26

12:00–13:15

Bottom-Up or Top-Down? Governance Arrangements and Coherent Policy-Making for a Just Transition

Location: Berlin Room

Organisers: Stockholm Environment Institute; German Institute of Development and Sustainability; Polítca y Legislación Ambiental A.C.; Real Instituto Elcano

13:30–14:45

Advancing Justice Considerations in Climate Policy – Bridging National and Global Perspectives

Location: Bonn Room

Organisers: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center