Support Climate Justice for Palestine at COP30: Protect Land, Water, and the Right to Live
Support Climate Justice for Palestine at COP30: Protect Land, Water, and the Right to Live
The Issue
Palestine is facing a compounded crisis: environmental degradation, conflict, and systematic land dispossession under Israeli occupation are destroying livelihoods, soils, and water systems. In Gaza, over 90% of agricultural lands and wells have been destroyed, with soils contaminated by wartime infrastructure damage, bombings, and untreated wastewater. In the West Bank, olive trees are being uprooted, settlement outposts are expanding, and over 1,800 attacks on farmers by settlers have been reported. Water scarcity, soil degradation, and environmental contamination—exacerbated by occupation policies and military operations—threaten food security, ecosystem services, and the survival of rural communities.
This is not only a human rights crisis—it is a profound environmental injustice.
Immediate action is required to restore soils and water systems, protect livelihoods, and ensure climate resilience.
At COP30, we call on world leaders, UNFCCC delegates, civil society networks, and climate financing institutions to ensure that Palestine is not left behind.
We urge COP30 and the international community to:
- Recognize Palestine’s climate vulnerability under occupation, settlement expansion, and the war on Gaza.
- Ensure fair access to climate finance and resilience funding.
- Protect agricultural lands, Bedouin herding routes, olive groves, and grazing ecosystems from occupation-related destruction.
- Guarantee the rights of Palestinian farmers and herders to work, move, and live safely despite settlement encroachment and military operations.
- Prevent “green grabbing” and dispossession disguised as conservation or development projects.
- Hold accountable the policies and actors driving land dispossession, settlement expansion, and environmental harm.
- Prioritize local communities, women’s cooperatives, and youth-led initiatives in all climate and agricultural interventions.
Climate justice in Palestine is inseparable from the rights to land, water, dignity, and self-determination.
Climate justice cannot exclude Palestine.
Add your name to stand with land, life, and dignity.
Climate justice for Palestine is justice for all.
This appeal is published by:
PNGO – Palestinian NGO Network & PAIC – Palestinian Agricultural Institutions Coalition
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The Issue
Palestine is facing a compounded crisis: environmental degradation, conflict, and systematic land dispossession under Israeli occupation are destroying livelihoods, soils, and water systems. In Gaza, over 90% of agricultural lands and wells have been destroyed, with soils contaminated by wartime infrastructure damage, bombings, and untreated wastewater. In the West Bank, olive trees are being uprooted, settlement outposts are expanding, and over 1,800 attacks on farmers by settlers have been reported. Water scarcity, soil degradation, and environmental contamination—exacerbated by occupation policies and military operations—threaten food security, ecosystem services, and the survival of rural communities.
This is not only a human rights crisis—it is a profound environmental injustice.
Immediate action is required to restore soils and water systems, protect livelihoods, and ensure climate resilience.
At COP30, we call on world leaders, UNFCCC delegates, civil society networks, and climate financing institutions to ensure that Palestine is not left behind.
We urge COP30 and the international community to:
- Recognize Palestine’s climate vulnerability under occupation, settlement expansion, and the war on Gaza.
- Ensure fair access to climate finance and resilience funding.
- Protect agricultural lands, Bedouin herding routes, olive groves, and grazing ecosystems from occupation-related destruction.
- Guarantee the rights of Palestinian farmers and herders to work, move, and live safely despite settlement encroachment and military operations.
- Prevent “green grabbing” and dispossession disguised as conservation or development projects.
- Hold accountable the policies and actors driving land dispossession, settlement expansion, and environmental harm.
- Prioritize local communities, women’s cooperatives, and youth-led initiatives in all climate and agricultural interventions.
Climate justice in Palestine is inseparable from the rights to land, water, dignity, and self-determination.
Climate justice cannot exclude Palestine.
Add your name to stand with land, life, and dignity.
Climate justice for Palestine is justice for all.
This appeal is published by:
PNGO – Palestinian NGO Network & PAIC – Palestinian Agricultural Institutions Coalition
30
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Petition created on November 10, 2025