Open Letter: On Land Day and Everyday, We Refuse the Greenwashing of Genocide
From: The Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy (PICS)
To: Climate justice organizers, environmentalists, researchers, institutions, civil society, and all who believe in liberation

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đź“… March 30, 2025
Today, as we mark Palestinian Land Day, we are devastated and outraged by the renewed military assault on Gaza—part of an ongoing genocide now entering its nineteenth consecutive month. As climate organizations, researchers, and institutions around the world call for "just transitions" and sustainability, many remain disturbingly silent on the political and ecological realities unfolding in Palestine.

We, members of the Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy (PICS), write this letter to say clearly.

There is no such thing as a just transition on stolen land.
There is no climate justice without Palestinian liberation.

Since October 2023, more than 62,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces. Thousands remain missing. Entire ecological systems, water infrastructure, agricultural lifelines, and cultural heritage have been decimated. Israel’s military siege and ecocidal tactics have rendered Gaza uninhabitable, while governments that block climate reparations continue to fund this horror with bombs and silence.

Despite these crimes being live-streamed—the most documented genocide in modern history—many professional environmental and climate institutions have refused to speak. They continue to host climate events with Israeli government sponsorship, accept “green” funding from complicit donors, or worse, promote technologies like solar geoengineering while ignoring the core drivers of militarism, fossil capitalism, and settler colonialism.

We ask:
  • Where is your outrage for Gaza?
  • How can you talk about sustainable futures while millions are displaced, starved, and murdered?
  • How long will institutions hide behind apolitical frameworks while Palestinians are buried under the rubble?
We invite individuals and collectives who care about justice—climate, racial, Indigenous, and otherwise—to sign this letter, hold your institutions accountable, and commit to anti-colonial climate work.

📢 We Demand:
  1. That climate and environmental organizations issue public statements condemning the genocide in Gaza and the ecocide of Palestinian land.
  2. That all institutions and professionals refuse normalization and sever ties with Israeli entities involved in occupation, displacement, and greenwashing.
  3. That civil society groups, funders, and donors uphold the Palestinian-led call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), including refusing funding from those enabling war and climate destruction.
  4. That organizations center Palestinian liberation in their frameworks and resist language that frames genocide as a “conflict” or “security concern.”
  5. That forums and coalitions stop censoring discussion of Palestine, anti-colonialism, or state-led militarism within climate policy and environmental studies spaces.
We reject the idea that climate action can be neutral. There is no neutrality in genocide. There is no decarbonization in apartheid.

Sign the letter below to say:
The Palestinian people have the right to live, to return, and to remain on their land with dignity.
Our struggle for climate justice must be rooted in the right to exist — freely, safely, and with sovereignty.
There is no just transition without Indigenous land, without memory, without life.
There is no future without Palestine.
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