IEF Endorsements and Partnerships
18 September 2025: JOINT APPEAL FOR NUCLEAR ABOLITION DAY
Following an invitation by MEGA, the IEF has endorsed the Joint Appeal for Nuclear Abolition Day.
31 May 2025: FAIRER FINANCING FOR THE FUTURE
The IEF signed on to the initiative by the Action for Sustainable Development “FAIRER FINANCING FOR THE FUTURE”: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPO36IBcj8JLxN0rxxVIoDBf0tM4EPUw847b-GdGqrrI3n4g/viewform
May 2025: UNOC3 Multifaith Declaration
Following a request from UNEP Faith for Earth, the IEF signed the Multifaith Declaration drafted for the 3rd UN Ocean Conference in June. It can be seen at https://www.oceans.faith/en/declaration.
February 2025: UN Charter Reform Coalition
The IEF Board decided to join the UN Charter Reform Coalition, growing global movement to reform and revitalize the United Nations through a general conference as an-ticipated in Article 109 of the UN Charter.
20 November 2024: Multifaith Triple COP Call to Action
The International Environment Forum has endorsed the interfaith call to action addressed to the Conferences of the Parties (COP) of the three Rio conventions on climate change, biodiversity and desertification: https://iefworld.org/node/1646/edit?destination=/node%3Fcheck_logged_in%3D1
27 October 2024
The IEF endorsed "Protecting Our Common Climate System: Earth Governance for a Sustainable Future", a joint Inter-faith and Values Appeal to the 2024 Conference of States Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 29) by the Transnational Working Group on Values, faith-based perspectives and global governance.
15 July 2024
The IEF endorsed the proposal of a BIC side event for the UN Action Days called "Room for Optimism".
2 June 2024: The IEF became a partner in the Nature Positive Forum.
https://www.naturepositive.org/
7 December 2023
IEF has signed the COP28 Faith Pavilion call to action: https://iefworld.org/COP28interfaith
30 November 2023
The IEF Board decided to become a co-sponsoring organization of Mobilizing an Earth Governance Alliance (MEGA): https://earthgovernance.org
19 August 2023
The IEF endorsed the multi-faith initiative for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty: https://fossilfueltreaty.org/faith-letter
IEF Endorsement of the Open Letter to World Leaders by Action for Sustainable Development
The IEF Board endorsed the open letter to world leaders by Action for Sustainable Development for the Global Week of Action to Act4SDGs (16-25 September). The text of the letter is printed further below and is available here.
6 September 2022
Endorsed the International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering https://www.solargeoeng.org/non-use-agreement/open-letter/
Quote: The International Environment Forum endorses this letter because solar geoengi-neering is a huge threat to the environment and attractive as a technological fix to avoid real climate action. As a Baha’i-inspired organization working at the interface of science and eth-ics, we strongly support the International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering. https://www.solargeoeng.org/non-use-agreement/signatories/
20 August 2021: WWF International, Nature Call to Action - Non-State Actors' Call for Governments to Strengthen the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework https://iefworld.org/node/1171