Lucine Kasbarian

Oct 29, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Karen Sack |Bharat Dogra |Andrea Mazzarino |Lucine Kasbarian

WASHINGTON, DC – Roughly 40% of the world’s population inhabit coastal areas. In addition to being home to 12 of the world’s 15 largest cities, these regions serve as an essential lifeline for countless small villages and towns. With around 80% of international trade passing through seaports, coastal regions also play an outsize economic role, accounting for 60-70% of global GDP.

Oct 29, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Andrea Mazzarino |Lucine Kasbarian |Hailemariam DesAlegn

Climate change has emerged fast as an extremely serious problem, and while it is very important for everyone, all countries and all people, to respond in adequate and proper ways to contribute to climate change mitigation as well as adaptation, at the same time it should be emphasized that this should happen within a framework of justice and protection of livelihoods.

Oct 28, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Andrea Mazzarino |Lucine Kasbarian |Hailemariam DesAlegn |Stan Cox

Images of homes that collapsed under mudslides or falling trees, waterlogged , and debris-filled roads drove home (yes, home!) to me recently the impact of Hurricane Helene on rural areas in the southeastern United States. That hurricane and the no-less-devastating Hurricane Milton that followed it only exacerbated already existing underlying problems for rural America.

Oct 26, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Lucine Kasbarian |Hailemariam DesAlegn |Stan Cox |Laurel Sutherlin

Civilized nations should boycott this year’s UN Climate Conference, and sanction its genocidal, ecocidal host regime. The petro-dictatorship of Azerbaijan has been awarded hosting honors of this November 11-22’s United Nations Climate Conference, also known as COP29. This is the third year in a row that a petrostate has been authorized to oversee the meeting, after Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.  Only this time, a most dangerous, pompous regime is at the helm.

Oct 24, 2024 | themarkaz.org | Lucine Kasbarian

Civilized nations should boycott this year’s UN Climate Conference, and sanction its genocidal, ecocidal host regime. Lucine KasbarianThe petro-dictatorship of Azerbaijan has been awarded hosting honors of this year’s United Nations Climate Conference, November 11-22, also known as COP29. This is the third year in a row that a petrostate has been authorized to oversee the meeting, after Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.  Only this time, a most dangerous, pompous regime is at the helm.