On the sidelines of COP26, Israel’s Prime Minister met with Bill Gates to discuss forming working group to study potential cooperation around combating climate change. Gates’ obsession with ‘innovation’, however, might have blinded him from addressing other issues that Israel is also ‘known for’ – namely, being the world’s leading human rights violator and the destruction of the Palestinian environment.

We in Palestine and activists around the world are not satisfied with the progress to address this existential crisis. We are not merely in a “climate emergency” but in a global catastrophe — an environmental Nakba.