Carmit Lubanov, at The Blogs

Aug 11, 2026, 10:59 AM

Beyond Tech Export: What Israel Can Learn and Gain from Gulf Climate Leadership

Nearly a decade ago, in 2017, research conducted at the Association for Environmental Justice in Israel (AEJI) challenged a prevailing setup in Israeli policy circles. At the time, the dominant mindset framed climate change in a regional prism primarily...

Aug 3, 2026, 6:36 PM

Survival of the Social: Protecting the Mediterranean Countryside

A farmer in the rural Mediterranean is battling the wildfire. All Rights Reserved to Carmit Lubanov ©

Motto: “Not the strongest survives, but the social.” A Summer of Recurring Crisis The summer of 2026 has delivered another harrowing reminder of the Mediterranean’s extreme climate exposure. Wildfires across rural landscapes have broken records, claiming lives—including first responders, firefighters, and...

Jul 21, 2026, 6:18 PM

The European Message and the Vanishing Eco-Political Vote in Israel

The Green Vote. All Rights are Reserved to Carmit Lubanov ©

The recent political reshuffling in Israel delivered a quiet yet telling message: veteran advocates who connected environmental justice with peace and social equity have been pushed to the unrealistic margins of party lists. Figures whose public track records bridge...

Jul 15, 2026, 9:01 PM

Beyond GDP: Why the World is Failing the Climate Justice Test

AI Illustration of Professor Robert Bullard, "the father of the environmental justice movement," who guided and accompanied researchers and activists around the world in action to reduce environmental inequality. All rights are reserved to Carmit Lubanov ©

While global leaders showcase carbon reduction targets and green transition plans, a starker reality unfolds beneath the surface. The climate crisis is not merely a physical threat of rising temperatures; it is, first and foremost, a structural crisis of...

Jun 28, 2026, 5:10 PM

Beyond the ‘Art of the Deal’: Why the Levant Needs Climate Realism

Beyond the "Art of Deal" – No to Transactional Diplomacy. By Carmit Lubanov ©

For decades, international diplomacy in the Middle East has followed two equally flawed tracks. On one side are the utopian dreamers, proposing grand, multi-lateral "environmental peacebuilding" summits that assume ecological cooperation will magically pave the way for final-status political...

Jun 24, 2026, 10:21 PM

Pass the Ball to the Planet: Why World Cup 2026 Highlights Climate Complexity

World Cup 2026 and the Question of Climate Complexity

The world is currently transfixed by the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Across the USA, Canada, and Mexico, billions of fans are united by football. But as we cheer, a more profound reality unfolds outside the stadiums. The climate crisis...

Jun 19, 2026, 9:47 AM

High-Tech Oases and the Missing Piece of Middle Eastern Climate Resilience

Climate Democracy - The Israel perspective

As the Mediterranean summer sharpens into a multi-month crucible of extreme heatwaves and declining water security, a dangerous illusion persists across the Middle East. It is the belief that resilience to an altering climate is purely an engineering challenge—a...

Jun 16, 2026, 5:28 PM

Weapons vs. Welfare: Why Our Defense Budgets Are Sabotaging Our Climate Survival

We live in a world obsessed with “hard security.” We measure a nation’s safety by the size of its defense budget, the sophistication of its arsenals, and its capacity to project force. Yet, in the Anthropocene—an era defined by...

May 26, 2026, 6:05 PM

Environmental Peacebuilding is Dead. Long Live Climate Realism

For decades, the standard textbook for Mediterranean environmental diplomacy was built on a comforting premise known as "environmental peacebuilding." The theory promised that climate change would force ideological enemies into logical partnerships, transforming shared water and solar scarcity into...

May 4, 2026, 6:10 PM

Is it the Economy or a Political Ideology – the Climate Syndrome

Paris Agreement ‘the ultimate Triumph'
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Laurent Fabius, Minister for Foreign Affairs of France and President of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21); and François Hollande, President of France celebrate after the historic adoption of Paris Agreement on climate change.

To paraphrase the immortal saying of James Carville, "It's the economy, Stupid," an advisor to then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton, we examined with comparative tools the implementation of countries' climate policy commitments a decade after the signing of the Paris...

About Me

Carmit Lubanov is a leading researcher on regional climate policy and transboundary environmental security in the Middle East. Co-Founder of Tahadhari Center for Climate and Migration in Euro-Med (TCCMEM, Brussels) with Dr. Mark Causon (Malta) and Co-Head of new Climate and Environmental Justice Mediterranean Think-Tank, focusing on regional perspective of global processes of climate change in conflict zones. Carmit has expertise on international arena in climate governance, climate and environmental justice, initiated economically oriented field projects among weak links of the society, including cross-border Israel-Palestine projects. Among focuses of her work are driving processes in multi-threat space, role of women in climate democracy process and more.

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