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IEF 15th Annual Conference

18. December 2011 - 20:00 — admin

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FORUM 15th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Ethical Responses to Climate Change: Individual, Community, and Institutions

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 10 and 11 December 2011

held at the Bahá’í Centre of Learning for Tasmania, 1 Tasman Highway, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, http://www.tasbcl.com.au

The main sessions were streamed live on the internet, and can now be viewed at http://www.tasbcl.com.au/live.html (see conference report below).

U.S. National Spiritual Assembly endorses Climate Ethics Statement

22. November 2011 - 23:13 — admin
November 22, 2011

The Climate Ethics Campaign is aiming for 1,000 endorsements of its new climate change statement by November 30th, the day the campaign plans to officially release and circulate the statement on Capitol Hill.

A representative of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha‘is of the United States recently endorsed the statement, titled “Statement of Our Nation’s Moral Obligation to Address Climate Change”

IEF submission to the Bureau of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)

SUBMISSION TO THE BUREAU OF THE
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

by the
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FORUM
25 October 2011

http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&type=510&nr=166&menu=20

The International Environment Forum (http://iefworld.org), a Bahá'í-inspired professional organization for environment and sustainability with members in over 50 countries, accredited to WSSD in the science and technology major group, offers the following specific elements for the compilation of the zero draft outcome document for UNCSD next year.

Community Materials on Climate Change

Bahá'í Learning Resources - Environmental Stewardship and Justice

prepared under the direction of the
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States
for the Preach-in on Global Warming, February 2011
http://www.bahai.us/sustainable-development

Water and Values

5. June 2011 - 22:46 — Arthur Dahl
e-learning centre on sustainable development
IEF SUSTAPEDIA
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUSTAINABILITY

Ethics and Climate Change

5. June 2011 - 17:56 — Arthur Dahl
e-learning centre on sustainable development
IEF SUSTAPEDIA
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUSTAINABILITY

Energy Challenge

5. June 2011 - 17:49 — Arthur Dahl
e-learning centre on sustainable development
IEF SUSTAPEDIA
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUSTAINABILITY

Air Pollution - An Ethical Perspective

4. June 2011 - 22:19 — Arthur Dahl
e-learning centre on sustainable development

IEF SUSTAPEDIA
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUSTAINABILITY

Can ethical norms be justified by rational arguments alone?

31. May 2011 - 16:56 — Arthur Dahl

5th Conference of the International Environment Forum
19-21 October 2001, Hluboka nad Vltavou, Czech Republic

Can ethical norms be justified by rational arguments alone?

(Abstract of comments for the panel on values)

Friedo Zoelzer

[This paper is as presented at the Conference, and has not been subject to editorial review by the IEF]

Modern societies are to a large extent secular, their way of life being only vaguely related and sometimes even in contrast with the religious ethics of the past. Although many people still consider themselves Christians, Jews, Muslims, or Buddhists and stick to the traditional norms of behaviour, they do not understand these as inspired by or based on religion, but claim that it is just "reasonable" to behave the way they do. This attitude is for the most part a result of the Enlightenment, which put rational arguments higher than any traditionally accepted norm and demanded that everything had to conform to that standard.

Human Security and Climate Change: The Ethical Challenge

30. May 2011 - 16:07 — Arthur Dahl

Paper presented at the Fifth ECPD International Conference
National and Inter-ethnic Reconciliation, Religious Tolerance and Human Security in the Balkans:
Reconciliation and Human Security
Brioni Islands, Croatia, 29-30 October 2009

HUMAN SECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: THE ETHICAL CHALLENGE

Arthur Lyon Dahl
President, International Environment Forum, Geneva, Switzerland

[Powerpoint presentation 1.2 mb]

Climate change is at the top of the international agenda in 2009 with the lead up to the International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. Science shows that, after a reasonably stable temperature for the last thousand years, the average planetary temperature has started to rise rapidly (Figure 1), and projections suggest that we could easily overshoot the +2° increase that scientists believe will mean major climate change impacts on the planet and human society (IPCC 2007; Richardson et al., 2009). The temperature increase will be highest in the northern hemisphere and the polar regions.

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