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World Zionist Organisation takes climate action, opposes fossil fuels

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Published: 12 December 2015

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Success in Jerusalem: shmita planning and a fracking ban – Aytzim Ecological Judaism 22.10.15
Using shmita as an environmental framework, Aytzim’s Green Zionist Alliance persuaded the World Zionist Organisation and its constituent agencies to develop seven-year climate-action plans to reduce their carbon footprints, to prohibit fossil-fuel extraction, including fracking, on all KKL-JNF land and to oppose fossil-fuel extraction projects elsewhere when Israel’s water resources are at risk.
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