At the global climate summit currently underway in Belém, Brazil, tens of thousands of delegates gather under the banner of “saving the planet.” Yet a critical voice is being sidelined: Palestine. According to The Wire, activists at COP30 are highlighting the massive environmental destruction in the Gaza Strip — from destroyed green cover and livestock to carbon emissions from aerial bombardments — arguing that climate justice cannot happen while war-driven ecocide continues. The Wire
The article describes how Gaza has no pavilion in the Blue Zone, how youth and civil-society are pressing the point that “there is no climate justice without justice for Palestine,” and how corporate- and state-backed violence is entangled with climate breakdown. The Wire
This story matters for India, too: when the global climate conversation continues to ignore war-driven environmental destruction, it reinforces the dominance of corporate-state interests and leaves oppressed peoples voiceless.
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https://m.thewire.in/article/environment/there-is-gaza-at-cop30
