Santa Marta: Securing Justice in Transition

In Colombia – as in many parts of the Global South – this transition is not abstract. It is bound up with questions of sovereignty, livelihoods, and historical injustice. Santa Marta is a decisive moment to move from commitment to implementation. It must accelerate cooperation, address the links between fossil fuels and geopolitical instability, and support structural economic transformation. Without grant-based, non-debt-creating finance, this will not be possible.

The stated outcome of the Santa Marta process is the development of a fossil fuel transition roadmap. To be credible, this must go beyond high-level commitments and bemore than a talking shop and define practical pathways for implementation, including the legal frameworks, regulatory tools, financing mechanisms, and just transition policies.

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