Anchoring global fairness and social partnership in the EU climate and energy transition

The COP30 panel “Anchoring global fairness and social partnership in the EU climate and energy transition”, scheduled on Saturday, 15 November 2025, from 11:30 to 12:30 UTC-3, will examine how the EU’s Just Transition efforts can promote fairness, social equity, and human security, while advancing global social justice.

Drawing on GEF’s Knowledge Communities, which focus on the nexus of social, energy, and climate domains, and the results of the SPES project, which analysed the impacts of EU climate policies both within and beyond Europe, diverse stakeholders will discuss collaborative pathways toward inclusive and globally just energy and climate transitions.

The Official Side-Event will be hosted by the Just Transition Pavilion during the 30th Conference of the Parties in Belém, Brazil.

Chair:

• Taube Van Melkebeke, Green European Foundation

Panel Discussion:

• Simone Borghesi, FSR Climate, EAERE & University of Siena
• Taísa Mendonça, Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI)
• Laura de Bonfils, Social Platform
• Member of the European Parliament

Closing remarks

• Frank Siebern-Thomas, DG EMPL (tbc)

The event is co-organised by EUI-FSR in coordination with the consortium of the Horizon Europe project SPES, and in collaboration with the Green European Foundation.

Dive deeper into the topic:

• Read the FSR-EUI deliverable 7.1 from the SPES project on EU ETS and EU ETS2.
• Read the FSR-EUI deliverable 7.2 from the SPES project on CBAM.
• Read the Policy Brief.
• SPES project publications here.

   SPES is funded by the Horizon Europe Programme of the European Union, Grant Agreement No. 101094551.