Thank you Chair for the Floor, we the TUNGO constituency would like to deliver this statement on behalf of ourselves, Women and Gender, Climate Action Network and Demand Climate Justice and YOUNGO. 

As the allied civil society constituencies, we have consistently advocated that the Just Transition Work Programme be a space for transformative action for workers in formal and informal economy, people and the planet. We are afraid that the current draft text pulls us into a deadlock with the only outcome being another dialogue. We would like to reiterate that the JTWP must move beyond only dialogues and must deliver just transition on the ground and for that we need the WP to focus on concrete actionable outcomes in achieving the elements (a) to (g) outlined in paragraph 2 of decision 3/CMA.5

As allied constituencies, we would like to ask Parties to consider an  alternative to paragraph 6 of the draft text:

“Invites Parties, observers, and other non-Party stakeholders to submit via the submission portal views on concrete outcomes to achieving the elements (a) to (g) listed in paragraph 2 of decision 3/CMA.5 by February and requests the co-chairs to draft a compilation of the submissions to be used for the third and fourth dialogue.”

The purpose of this alternative is to focus all our work in 2025 on concrete outcomes, instead of sectoral dialogues. 

All constituencies have also other inputs on the text and would welcome the possibility to come back on those later. At this stage we consider it crucial to ensure the text offers at least one avenue to making a difference for people on the ground as soon as possible. 

The time is now.