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.
Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks
By Matt McGrath, Environment correspondent - BBC Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49773869
Greta Thunberg at the UN Climate Action Summit
New York, 23 September 2019
To Address Climate Change, Ensure Coherence Between Principle and Action
Daniel Perell
Representative of the Baha’i International Community to the United Nations
and a member of the International Environment Forum
New York, 20 September 2019
The many dimensions of poverty
UNDP Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019
Education: a Key to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
by IEF member Victoria Thoresen
Impacts of Climate Change on Global Fisheries
By IEF Member Elizabeth L Mclean, Ph.D.
Introduction
New Narratives in the Quest for Equality: Elites and Everyone Else
Daniel Perell
Representative of the Bahá'à International Community to the United Nations
New York, 21 August 2019
As the international community focuses increasing attention on global inequality, a central question emerges: Do the affluent play by a different set of rules?
Climate Change and Land
An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems
On 8 August 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a new special report on climate change and land. This comprehensive report was prepared by 107 experts from 52 countries.
UN High Level Political Forum 2019
Education, Peace and Climate Change
New York, 25 July 2019
Source: https://www.bic.org/news/education-peace-and-climate-change-come-focus-…
Restoring Forests for Climate Change
Summary by Arthur Dahl
Beyond phasing out fossil fuels and halting deforestation, restoring forested land at a global scale could help capture atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate change.