Tibet stands at the frontlines of climate change and colonial exploitation disguised as sustainability. True climate justice means Tibetans - experts on their own land - must have the power to decide what development looks like. Green energy without justice isn’t progress.

In Tibet, environmental policy is enforced through repression. There’s no space for dissent. Tibetan land defenders and activists like A-Nya Sengdra, Karma Samdrup and Tsongon Tsering have been jailed for exposing local corruption or protecting the environment.

The NYT described Tibet as “sparsely inhabited” and “optimal” for solar power, erasing the people who live there. Tibet’s grasslands are ancestral grazing lands, not empty space. Since 2000, nearly 930,000 Tibetans have been forcibly relocated under the banner of “development.”

round the world, solar and wind infrastructure projects are driving what experts call a “green grab” - seizing land from rural and Indigenous communities for profit. China’s green projects in Tibet fit the same pattern: land loss, forced relocation, and crackdown on dissent.