There is no climate justice without Palestinian liberation
A demonstration in front of the COP30 Blue Zone. Photo: Cândida Schaedler
For nearly two years, Israel has been carrying out a live-streamed genocide against Indigenous Palestinians in Gaza and across historic Palestine, devastating lives, land, and ecosystems. UN experts have described Israel’s crimes as including domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, cultural genocide, and ecocide. In September 2025, the UN Commission of Inquiry confirmed that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
This genocide is inseparable from environmental destruction:
More than 100,000 tons of bombs dropped, with a carbon footprint greater than the annual emissions of many countries.
Widespread soil and water contamination with depleted uranium, white phosphorus, and heavy metals.
80% of Gaza’s agricultural land has been destroyed, causing famine and long-term ecological collapse.
This genocide is built on 77 years of colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and illegal occupation — which Israel has been allowed to perpetrate against our people through the complicity of states and corporations. Ending complicity is the first duty of solidarity.
Energy, water, and agribusiness corporations are complicit — providing fuel, coal, and technologies that enable Israel’s war machine, settlements, and apartheid system, which uphold the war machine, illegal occupation, and apartheid regime. These sectors are central to this chain of complicity.
Our Demands for COP30 and Beyond
We, Palestinian grassroots, environmental, and human rights organizations, call on climate justice movements, human rights groups, trade unions, and solidarity networks to take action:
Global Energy Embargo for Palestine
Pressure Brazil, as COP30 host, to end all exports of oil, coal, and fuel to Israel;
Mobilize globally — especially in Brazil, Colombia, South Africa, Nigeria, Greece, Cyprus, Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Gabon — to halt energy shipments to Israel;
Target energy corporations, including Glencore, Drummond, BP, Chevron, ENI, and SOCAR, which are fueling genocide, apartheid, and illegal military occupation;
Oppose EU–Israel gas deals which, according to legal experts, risk violating international law by consolidating Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid regime.
End Water Apartheid
Terminate all agreements with Mekorot, the Israeli state-owned water company that cuts water supply to Gaza and sustains illegal settlements;
Halt new projects and expose water companies that greenwash Israeli apartheid.
End Agribusiness Complicity
Boycott and divest from Netafim, Adama, ICL Group, and other agribusiness corporations profiting from colonialism, pesticide production, and land theft.
Connect global struggles for food sovereignty to the Palestinian struggle for land and life.
Ban Israel from COP30
Israel — found guilty of apartheid and genocide (including ecocide) — must not be legitimized as a participant in a UN climate conference. Its presence undermines the remaining credibility of COP30 and the global climate justice agenda.
Civil society must demand that Brazil and the UNFCCC exclude Israel until it fully complies with international law and respects Palestinian rights, including the right of refugees to return and receive reparations.
Climate justice and Palestinian liberation are inseparable. The same companies and states that profit from fossil fuels, militarism, and ecological destruction are often those enabling genocide.
We urge all movements gathering in Belém for COP30 to:
Include these demands in their advocacy actions and communications;
Strengthen the global BDS movement as the most effective form of solidarity — targeting complicity and promoting meaningful accountability;
Build joint campaigns linking climate justice with anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggles.
There is no climate justice without Palestinian liberation.
Palestinian Institute of Public Diplomacy (PIPD)
