Climate risk continues to be exacerbated, bringing new emerging challenges. Rights and basic elements of life such as - access to water, food, health, and use of land and the environment are being sacrificed affecting communities, people ,and countries which rely heavily on nature their well-being. With global carbon dioxide emissions at an all-time high and nowhere near reduction targets, there is an urgent need for climate action. #COP26 in Glasgow provides an important opportunity for dialogue, but, can the global community really make the leap to reduce climate injustice? In this special edition of the @IIJSOfficial podcast series #WCJF2021, Claudia de Windt, CEO of IIJS (@deWindt_IIJS), and Professor Tahseen Jafry (@JafryT), Director of the Centre for Climate Justice (@GCUclimatejust) at Glasgow Caledonian University (@Glasgow_Caledonian_University) discuss the asymmetries and what needs to happen on the race to #COP26 to really achieve a "just transition”