The International Environment Forum, as a Bahá'Ã-inspired professional organization for environment and sustainability, shares and upholds the principles and ideals of the Bahá'à Faith and supports its efforts to establish and promote peace, the unity of the human race, and an ever-advancing world civilization that preserves the ecological balance of the planet.
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
22 September 2023
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has exposed the ‘hidden handbrakes’ blocking action to halt climate change. In an event on 22 September, the IIED showed that action to halt or reduce further climate change is being blocked by a range of ‘hidden handbrakes’ that the public are broadly unaware of and which range from legal obstacles to subsidies for fossil fuel companies and the architecture of the global financial system.