Pro-Palestine groups at the COP29 conference are arguing that there is a clear link between climate rights and human rights
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Tasneem Essop, the executive director of the Climate Action Network, noted that South Africa is considered a champion of the Palestinian cause both historically and as a result of its genocide case, but added: “You can’t be champions there but back home you’re literally fueling a genocide. “Colombia’s decisive action to end coal exports to Israel shows the power of cutting off the lifelines of oppression. Governments must impose an energy embargo on Israel immediately. Climate justice is incomplete without dismantling systems of violence that exploit people and the planet,” Mokgonyana said in a statement.
Muhammad weighed in: “There’s this weird sense of normalcy that we have here at COP where people are walking around in their national dress, speaking about big issues to do with the world and the future of the world, all the while many of the states there are supporting the destruction of one UN member state and the destruction of the entire people and the land and everything that exists there.
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