THE SOUTH ASIA JUST TRANSITION ALLIANCE 

We, the South Asian Just Transition Alliance (SAJTA), welcome ADB’s decision to withdraw from the flawed 500 MW Assam Solar Power Project. This project risked displacing over 20,000 Indigenous families in Karbi Anglong. Its cancellation is a major win for environmental justice and Indigenous rights. We congratulate the Indigenous communities and activists who relentlessly resisted this harmful project. Their unwavering protest has set a powerful precedent for people’s movements across South Asia.

We, the members of the South Asia Just Transition Alliance (SAJTA), express our happiness and thank the Sri Lankan government for taking strict measures so that Adani Group had to cancel its 482MW controversial wind power project from Mannar and Pooneryn in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.

South  Asia is one of the regions in the world that majorly  depends  on domestic  primary  energy for electricity. The region is also one of the highest-emitting regions in the world. The seven countries' regions combined emit 4,129.21 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. India is the third largest emitting country, just behind China and the United States.