In a time of climate crisis, wars for oil, and rising authoritarianism threatening people and planet, we find hope in resistance and in solutions led by Indigenous peoples and local communities calling for phasing out fossil fuels and a just transition to local, clean and renewable energy. We are also encouraged by subnational and international commitments, including California’s investigation of its imports of oil from the Amazon and its plans to phase out its use of fossil fuel by 2045, as well as Colombia’s announcement during COP30 that it won’t license any new oil extraction. Colombia will, in fact, host the First International Conference for the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels this April together with the Netherlands and several other countries. In this session, some local, national and international leaders in the Just Transition Movement will delve into the challenges and opportunities and share their strategies. With: Michelle Chan, Co-Executive Director of Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN); Katie Valenzuela, CA Policy Consultant & former Sacramento City Council Member; Josh Becker, CA State Senator (D-13) and author of SR 51, a unanimously approved CA state resolution to review imports of crude oil from the Amazon rainforest and an eventual phase-out. Hosted by Leila Salazar-López, Executive Director of Amazon Watch.