Uttar Pradesh's brick kiln sector is a major source of employment and a major source of emissions at once; it sustains millions of seasonal, informal workers even as it comes under growing pressure to shift to cleaner production technology. That pressure exposes a structural problem: kiln owners, workers, unions, pollution boards, and district administrations each experience this transition differently, and approach it from opposing vantage points as a result. Without shared evidence, these differences harden into mistrust, and mistrust stalls the very cooperation a just transition depends on. Closing that gap requires a platform that doesn't impose a transition from the top down, but builds consensus from the lived, local reality of the people the transition will actually affect.