The International Environment Forum, as a Bahá'Ă-inspired professional organization for environment and sustainability, shares and upholds the principles and ideals of the Bahá'Ă 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.
World Conference
on Religions, Creeds and Value Systems:
Joining Forces to Enhance Equal Citizenship Rights
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
25 June 2018
Reflections on Science, Technology and the Human Spirit
Arthur Lyon Dahl
International Environment Forum
Geneva, Switzerland
Paper prepared for the
Triglav Circle 2018
Chateau de Poussignol, Blismes, France
30 June-1 July 2018
http://www.triglavcircleonline.org/
Migration and Religion
Arthur Lyon Dahl
International Environment Forum
Geneva, Switzerland
based on a paper presented at the
World Conference on “Religions, Creeds and Value Systems:
Joining Forces to Enhance Equal Citizenship Rights”
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 June 2018
UN Secretariat Reform on Sustainable Development
The United Nations Secretary-General is moving ahead with his reforms within the UN Secretariat. After achieving gender balance in all his senior appointments, he has now reorganised the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, responsible for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals.
New Shape Forum, Stockholm
Two members of the International Environment Forum, Maja Groff and Arthur Dahl, together with Augusto Lopez-Claros, submitted a proposal to reform the UN Charter to the New Shape Prize competition organized in 2017 by the Global Challenges Foundation. The proposal was one of 14 finalists invited to Stockholm, Sweden, on 25-30 May 2018, for the New Shape Forum and final judging for the US$ 1.8 million New Shape Prize, and came in first.
BIC/IEF Contributions to Talanoa Dialogue
Bonn, Germany, 6 May 2018
Information: private property or public good?
On 15 February, I gave a TEDx talk at the Institut National Polytechnique: École Nationale Supérieure d’Électrotechnique, d’Électronique, d’Informatique, d’Hydraulique et des Télécommunications (INP ENSEEIHT), Université de Toulouse, France, on the topic "Information: private property or public good?". The full series of TEDx talks that day in French can be seen on YouTube at TEDxINPENSEEIHT.
IEF participation in the Justice Conference 2018
The 23rd annual Justice Conference was held at the de Poort Conference Centre in the Netherlands on 30 March-2 April 2018. The International Environment Forum (IEF) previously partnered with the Justice Conference as its annual conference in 2017 (https://iefworld.org/conf21), so a number of IEF members were present again this year, including Iko Congo, Arthur Dahl, Maja Groff (conference organizer), Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Wendi Momen, Halldor Thorgeirsson, and David Willis. A side discussion on IEF over dinner allowed us to recruit some new members.
Story of Stuff: A Baha'i-inspired Program for Youth
by Christine Muller
https://www.storyofstuff.org/faith-based/
How are materialism and consumerism issues of justice? And how can we help our youth to understand the abstract concept of materialism and its numerous detrimental impacts?
Motivating the transition at the grassroots
International Environment Forum Contribution to the Talanoa Dialogue
United Nations Climate Change input for COP24
19 March 2018
Topic: How do we get there?
Objective: Wider partnerships in public education about climate change
https://unfccc.int/documents/65320 or
https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/10_IEF_Contribution_Tal…
SUMMARY: It is easier for government to increase ambition if they have public support. Public education about climate change should combine scientific and ethical perspectives to motivate action, as demonstrated by a decade of experience with interfaith climate change courses available on line. In Vanuatu, a climate change course was prepared for use in rural training centres around the archipelago. Governments should partner with a wide range of stakeholders to spread values-based education about the science and ethics of climate change and to encourage practical actions everyone can take to build community resilience.