The assembly ‘Toward a Just Energy Future’ put forth a Regional Roadmap for a Simply Power Transition, and introduced the Polluters Pay Pact.
A United Name for an pressing, truthful, and inclusive shift towards renewable power around the area
Amman, Jordan – October 7, 2025: In a landmark step for local weather and effort 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 in combination in a high-level assembly in Amman to chart collective methods for phasing out of fossil fuels whilst protective communities, employees, and susceptible teams. The assembly ‘Toward a Just Energy Future’ put forth a Regional Roadmap for a Simply Power Transition, and introduced the Polluters Pay Pact, a collaborative effort that calls on polluters to take accountability for local weather damages.
Held below the patronage of the Minister of Power and Mineral Assets in Jordan Dr. Saleh A. Al-Kharabsheh, the development introduced in combination civil society leaders, business unionists, mavens, and decision-makers from around the area to pressure a united regional time table that aligns nationwide methods, forges robust partnerships, and amplifies collective advocacy to boost up a simply, inclusive, and responsible power transition around the MENA area.
In a pivotal second for a area on the crossroads of power transition, Useful resource Justice Community’s Regional Roadmap for a simply and equitable power transition marks the primary region-wide technique co-created via civil society actors, regional networks and companions around the area, together with GP MENA and FES.
The MENA area’s financial system is based closely on fossil fuels, with greater than 95% of power intake coming from hydrocarbon assets. In 2023, Center Japanese and North African nations accounted for roughly 35% of worldwide oil manufacturing and 23% of herbal fuel output. This makes the area’s transition to scrub power the most important to reaching the worldwide function of proscribing warming to one.5°C.
The Regional Roadmap outlines transparent coverage pathways for nationwide motion plans and regional collaboration, and advocates for a simply and sustainable power long term. It requires transparency in executive making plans, gender-inclusive power insurance policies, and financial diversification to make sure that no network, employee, or susceptible workforce is left at the back of.
Calling on governments throughout MENA to embed justice, participation, and responsibility into each degree of the fossil gasoline phase-out and renewable power growth, the roadmap urges the International North to fulfill its local weather commitments. This can also be accomplished via sustained monetary contributions, era switch, and capability development to allow an equitable transition.
To advance local weather justice and protected local weather finance, Greenpeace MENA introduced the Polluters Pay Pact (PPP), which calls for that global fossil gasoline corporations—particularly oil and fuel manufacturers—pay for the destruction their emissions have led to, and to stop their polluting actions. As excessive climate intensifies and communities face mounting losses, those companies proceed to make huge income whilst folks shoulder the load. The PPP urges governments to impose new taxes and consequences on global fossil gasoline corporations to fund a simply power transition, improve local weather answers, and lend a hand communities face and rebuild from local weather screw ups.
In his speech nowadays, Al-Kharabsheh, said:
“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 these days running on updating the power sector technique for the duration 2025–2035, with the function of accelerating the proportion of renewable power initiatives and embellishing the stableness of the nationwide electrical energy grid.
Commenting at the tournament, Greenpeace MENA’s Government Director Ghiwa Nakat said:
“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.”
From his facet, Dr. Pierre Saade, Head of Useful resource Justice Community, mentioned:
“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 elemental concept 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 release of the Regional Roadmap for a Simply Power Transition and the Polluters Pay Pact marks a milestone in shaping the area’s power long term, addressing the local weather disaster whilst advancing social and financial justice. A simply, community-centered transition can unencumber alternatives to grow to be economies, create hundreds of thousands of respectable jobs, and increase inexpensive power get right of entry to.
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