United Nations Activities on Environment and Sustainability
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With the growing need for global environmental governance, the United Nations has been playing a leading role for more than half a century
The IEF has documented, and sometimes participated, in UN environment and sustainability activities
in reverse chronological order
Preparations for the
Summit of the Future
United Nations, New York, 22-23 September 2024
A Tale of Two Summits
BIC Calls for Synergy Between SDGs and Summit of the Future
New York 3 August 2023
Interim People’s Pact for the Future,
2023 Civil Society Perspectives on the Summit of the Future
prepared by the Coalition for the UN We Want (C4UN) 21 May 2023
Thinking about the Summit of the Future,
Arthur Dahl discusses global environmental governance
for the Global Governance Forum, 12 May 2023
Summit of the Future: What would it deliver?
United Nations, 2023
Global framework agreed to address harm from chemicals and waste
United Nations Environment Programme, 30 September 2023
UN Summits Week 2023,
SDG Summit, Climate Ambition Summit, Preparatory Meeting SOTF,
18-22 September 2023
In pursuit of hope
blog by Arthur Lyon Dahl for UN high-level General Assembly week,
16-22 September 2023
A Second Charter: Imagining a Renewed United Nations
A High-Level UNGA 2023 Side Event
Tuesday, 19 September 2023
Statement
from the Global Governance Forum, 24 August 2023
The Peoples' Environment Narrative
50 Years with UNEP and Civil Society
Towards Stockholm+50 and Beyond
book launch 5 June 2023
How forests benefit people and planet
UN Forum on Forests, 8-12 May 2023
United Nations System Common Principles on Future Generations
endorsed by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination
4 May 2023
Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report
Remarks of the Secretary-General
25 April 2023 (excerpts)
A Breakthrough for People and Planet:
Effective and Inclusive Global Governance for Today and the Future
UN High Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism
Report released 25 April 2023
summary of environmental proposals to which IEF members contributed
Global Futures Forum
calls for UN Reforms to address emerging 21st Century challenges
New York and online, 20-21 March 2023
Conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity
beyond areas of national jurisdiction – BBNJ
20 February – 4 March 2023, UN Headquarters, New York
Confluence of Crises: Warnings by the UN Secretary-General
blog by Arthur Lyon Dahl, 21 February 2023
Risks from sea level rise
UN Security Council debate, 14 February 2023
Planned science-policy panel on chemicals, wastes and pollution
UNEA Open-ended Working Group, February 2023
Global Biodiversity Framework Adopted
Convention on Biological Diversity
Montreal, Canada, 18 December 2022
The Right Time for UN Reform
Outcome of an event organized by the Bahá'à International Community
New York, 1 November 2022
IEF Input on Water
to Preparatory Meeting for UN 2023 Water Conference
submitted 27 October 2022
WHO People-Planet-Health Action Board
IEF participation in new World Health Organization
initiative for health promotion
20 October 2022
Biodiversity Values Assessment
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
1 August 2022
Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment
approved by UN General Assembly
28 July 2022
Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022
United Nations Statistics Division
7 July 2022
United Nations Ocean Conference 2022
Lisbon, Portugal
27 June-1 July 2022
UN Stockholm+50 International Meeting
A Healthy Planet for the Prosperity of All – Our Responsibility, Our Opportunity
2-3 June 2022
Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment
David Boyd
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
8 April 2022
Stockholm+50: Only One Earth
50 years since the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment
14 January 2022
UN Climate Change Conference COP26
and IEF 25th Conference associated events
Glasgow, Scotland
1-5 November 2021
UN Climate Change Conference (COP21)
and IEF events
Paris
30 November-11 December 2015
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)
and 16th IEF Annual Conference
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
16-19 June 2012
Preparations for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio 2012)
5 November 2011
UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development ( DESD) 2005-2014
and UNESCO Global Action Programme for education for sustainable development 2014-
World Summit on Sustainable Development
and IEF 6th Conference
Johannesburg, South Africa
27 August-3 September 2002
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992
produced Agenda 21, an action plan for sustainable development
(IEF President was in the UNCED Secretariat and helped to draft Agenda 21)
UN Conference on the Human Environment
Stockholm, Sweden
5-16 June 1972
(The IEF did not exist in 1972, but the IEF President was there representing the Bahá'à International Community)
Last updated 4 October 2023