The 22st Annual Report of the International Environment Forum summarizes the events and activities from May 2017 to August 2018 between two annual General Assemblies. The General Assembly in 2018 is being held on line in August 2018 since it was not practical to hold it in New York during the 22nd Annual Conference in July.
22nd Annual Conference of the International Environment Forum
in support of the
United Nations High Level Political Forum
New York, 9-18 July 2018
Triglav Circle
Chateau de Poussignol, France
29 June-1 July 2018
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
25 June 2018
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/
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
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.
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.
Bonn, Germany, 6 May 2018
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.
