The assembly ‘Toward a Just Energy Future’ put forth a Regional Roadmap for a Simply Power Transition, and launched the Polluters Pay Pact.
A United Name for an pressing, honest, and inclusive shift towards renewable vitality throughout the area
Amman, Jordan – October 7, 2025: In a landmark step for local weather and vitality justice, Greenpeace Center East and North Africa (MENA), Useful resource Justice Community in MENA, and The Regional Competence Middle for Power and Local weather Justice MENA at Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), got here collectively in a high-level assembly in Amman to chart collective methods for phasing out of fossil fuels whereas defending communities, employees, and weak teams. The assembly ‘Toward a Just Energy Future’ put forth a Regional Roadmap for a Simply Power Transition, and launched the Polluters Pay Pact, a collaborative effort that calls on polluters to take duty for local weather damages.
Held beneath the patronage of the Minister of Power and Mineral Assets in Jordan Dr. Saleh A. Al-Kharabsheh, the occasion introduced collectively civil society leaders, commerce unionists, specialists, and decision-makers from throughout the area to drive a united regional agenda that aligns nationwide methods, forges highly effective partnerships, and amplifies collective advocacy to speed up a simply, inclusive, and accountable vitality transition throughout the MENA area.
In a pivotal second for a area on the crossroads of vitality transition, Useful resource Justice Community’s Regional Roadmap for a simply and equitable vitality transition marks the primary region-wide technique co-created by civil society actors, regional networks and companions throughout the area, together with GP MENA and FES.
The MENA area’s financial system depends closely on fossil fuels, with greater than 95% of vitality consumption coming from hydrocarbon sources. In 2023, Center Jap and North African nations accounted for about 35% of worldwide oil manufacturing and 23% of pure fuel output. This makes the area’s transition to wash vitality essential to reaching the worldwide purpose of limiting warming to 1.5°C.
The Regional Roadmap outlines clear coverage pathways for nationwide motion plans and regional collaboration, and advocates for a simply and sustainable vitality future. It requires transparency in authorities planning, gender-inclusive vitality insurance policies, and financial diversification to make sure that no group, employee, or weak group is left behind.
Calling on governments throughout MENA to embed justice, participation, and accountability into each stage of the fossil gasoline phase-out and renewable vitality growth, the roadmap urges the World North to fulfill its local weather commitments. This may be achieved via sustained monetary contributions, know-how switch, and capability constructing to allow an equitable transition.
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To advance local weather justice and safe local weather finance, Greenpeace MENA launched the Polluters Pay Pact (PPP), which calls for that worldwide fossil gasoline corporations—particularly oil and fuel producers—pay for the destruction their emissions have prompted, and to stop their polluting actions. As excessive climate intensifies and communities face mounting losses, these companies proceed to make huge income whereas folks shoulder the burden. The PPP urges governments to impose new taxes and penalties on worldwide fossil gasoline corporations to fund a simply vitality transition, assist local weather options, and assist communities face and rebuild from local weather disasters.
In his speech as we speak, Al-Kharabsheh, acknowledged:
“Environmental challenges, such as climate change, call for serious international cooperation to combat extreme weather events. Hence the importance of this regional meeting, which aims to produce proposals and recommendations that can help define our priorities for the coming period.”
Al-Kharabsheh identified that the Ministry of Power and Mineral Assets is at present engaged on updating the vitality sector technique for the interval 2025–2035, with the purpose of accelerating the share of renewable vitality tasks and enhancing the soundness of the nationwide electrical energy grid.
Commenting on the occasion, Greenpeace MENA’s Government Director Ghiwa Nakat acknowledged:
“A just energy transition is not merely about replacing oil with sun and wind, but about reimagining the role of energy in building a more sustainable and equitable future for our region. Amid climate and economic crises, and wars that deepen the fragility of communities, we open a window of hope toward a just energy transition, guided by roadmaps that place people at the heart of change and ensure fair distribution of benefits.”
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From his facet, Dr. Pierre Saade, Head of Useful resource Justice Community, stated:
“The new Regional Roadmap provides a clear policy vision for the MENA region to advance a just energy transition that is inclusive, transparent, and equitable, providing priority actions for governments to diversify economies and safeguard communities. Through this collective effort, we are positioning civil society as a key partner in shaping national, regional, and global policies for a sustainable and resilient future.”
Reinforcing the basic precept of a simply transition, Astrid Becker, Director, The Regional Competence Middle for Power and Local weather Justice MENA, commented:
“The idea of a just transition to ‘leave nobody behind’ in the ongoing shift towards a sustainable and carbon-free economy is central to our mission of fostering social justice and solidarity globally. Critically, these strategies must also be grounded in the local context, ensuring they address specific national vulnerabilities and direct the transition to deliver equitable benefits and create a truly inclusive socio-ecological transformation.”
The launch of the Regional Roadmap for a Simply Power Transition and the Polluters Pay Pact marks a milestone in shaping the area’s vitality future, addressing the local weather disaster whereas advancing social and financial justice. A simply, community-centered transition can unlock alternatives to remodel economies, create hundreds of thousands of first rate jobs, and increase inexpensive vitality entry.
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