Palestinian Civil Society Call to COP30
For nearly two years, Israel has waged a livestreamed 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 a genocide in Gaza
This genocide is inseparable from environmental destruction:
- Over 100,000 tons of bombs dropped, with a carbon footprint greater than the annual emissions of many countries.
- Widespread contamination of soil and water with depleted uranium, white phosphorus, and heavy metals.
- 80% of Gaza’s cropland destroyed, creating famine and long-term ecological collapse.
This genocide is built in 77 years of settler-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—supplying fuel, coal, and technologies that enable Israel’s war machine, settlements, and apartheid system that enable Israel’s war machine, illegal occupation,, and apartheid system, are central in this chain of complicity.
Our Demands for COP30 and Beyond
We, Palestinian grassroots, environmental, and human rights organisations, call on climate justice, human rights, trade unions, and solidarity movements to take action:
- Global Energy Embargo for Palestine
- Pressure Brazil as COP30 host to end all oil, coal, and fuel exports to Israel.
- Mobilise globally—especially in Brazil, Colombia, South Africa, Nigeria, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Gabon—to stop energy shipments to Israel.
- Target energy corporations including Glencore, Drummond, BP, Chevron, ENI and SOCAR that are fuelling genocide, apartheid and illegal military occupation.
- Oppose the EU–Israel gas agreements that legal experts warn risk breaching international law by entrenching Israel’s unlawful occupation and apartheid regime
- End Water Apartheid
- Terminate all agreements with Mekorot, the Israeli state water company that cuts off water to Gaza and sustains illegal settlements.
- Stop new projects and expose water corporations that greenwash apartheid.
- Stop Agribusiness Complicity
- Boycott and divest from Netafim, Adama, ICL Group, and other agribusiness firms profiting from settler colonialism, pesticides, and land theft
- Connect food sovereignty struggles worldwide to Palestine’s struggle for land and life.
- Ban Israel from COP30
- Israel, found guilty of apartheid and genocide (including ecocide), should not be legitimised 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 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 corporations and states profiting from fossil fuels, militarism, and ecological destruction are most often the same ones enabling genocide.
We urge all movements gathering in Belém for COP30 to:
- Include these demands in your advocacy and communications.
- Strengthen the global BDS movement as the most effective form of solidarity, targeting complicity and espousing meaningful accountability.
- Build joint campaigns linking climate justice with anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggles.
No climate justice without Palestinian liberation