Nine days before the UN’s international climate conference, which will be held in Sharm el-Sheikh, the Climate March 2022 took place in Tel Aviv this morning (Friday). The huge protest, led by the “Green Trend” and the organizations of the environmental movement, was held for the seventh year in a row and broke a record with 15 thousand Participants from all over the country, among the marchers are politicians and Knesset members, members of all youth movements, environmental organizations, public opinion leaders, dozens of schools and many students.
The event began in the plaza of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art with educational activities, booths, representatives and more, and continued with a central rally, after which the participants went on a foot march, from Shaul Hamelech Street, towards the center of Sharona.
Among others participating in the parade are the Society for the Protection of Nature, the Council of Youth Movements, Animals, Ecofis, Clear, the Shell Center for Sustainability, the Green Network, Greenpeace, sustainable, the student association and standing together.
- This is the event that brought together all the ministers in one place a week before the elections
The Climate Procession (Photo: Avshalom Sassouni)
The Climate Procession (Photo: Avshalom Sassouni)Also, the nearby streets leading to the event complex will be closed to vehicular traffic. The police stated that “the driving public is advised to use the waze application, which will mark the roadblocks and access roads, including regular updates during the event.”
Minister of Environmental Protection Tamar Zandberg at the Climate Parade (Photo: Dov Greenblatt, Society for the Protection of Nature)Elad Hochman, CEO of Green Movement, which leads the climate march: “Year by year our power grows and our power increases. This year, four days before the elections and in an unprecedented manner, many thousands came to demand that the parties put the environmental and climate issues at the center of the agenda. This march starts here and ends at the polling station. Our voice is that the elections should be decided, these are the most burning issues. We demand an ambitious climate law out of concern for our security and health. We demand the closure of the polluting industries in Haifa Bay and in Israel as a whole. We demand the cessation of the flow of oil in Ktsa.”
The CEO of the Society for the Protection of Nature, Iris Hahn, said: “I am marching for the preservation of nature, our line of defense, humans, in the face of the climate crisis. We march together to tell our elected officials that a healthy nature is not a luxury, it is essential and critical to our health, existence and future.”
On the eve of the UN climate conference in Egypt, the Israeli public is calling on its leaders to see the climate crisis as an opportunity for regional cooperation in the field of renewable energy and water and to promote climate justice for all residents of the region against the backdrop of common interest. This is our answer to Israel’s economy, to our national security and our energy security. These are the demands Ours, we will not settle for less than that.”
The climate march was held for the first time in Israel in 2015 and since then has grown consistently and impressively. Last year, a record number of participants was broken with more than 10,000 people, and the parade is widely covered in many media outlets all over the world.