Field report: What is a just transition and where are its seeds taking root?

From summer 2024 to spring 2025, GJA spoke with nine changemakers to explore how people across diverse geographies and movements understand and engage with the concept of ‘just transition’.

Our top-level question was both strikingly simple and subbornly complex: What is a just transition?

We were bowled over by the richness of the stories we heard, so we wanted to give this self-initiated generative journalism inquiry some more love by putting all that richness in one place…

This field report features all nine long-form interviews in their entirety, plus some insights and pattern-spotting from us at the GJA.

Great thanks go to all the folks we interviewed, our GJA interviewers, NPQ Magazine for the article they ran about this inquiry, Phia Davenport for their fantastic design work, and Opus for hosting and supporting the GJA.

If the report piques your interest and you want to know more – about this inquiry or GJA more generally – we’d love to hear from you.