An article in The Guardian 20 June 2020 and The Guardian Weekly of 26 June 2020, "Local tabu: an ancient ocean custom helps save reefs" acknowledges the life-long work on coral conservation of IEF member Austin Bowden-Kirby throughout the Pacific Islands and in central America.
Arthur Lyon Dahl
International Environment Forum
International Conference on Education for Social Cohesion
11-12 July 2020
24th International Environment Forum Annual Conference
By Daniel Perell
Representative of the Bahá'í International Community to the United Nations
New York, 19 June 2020
Urgent action is needed to safeguard the biodiversity of the world’s forests amid alarming rates of deforestation and degradation, according to the latest edition of The State of the World’s Forests released on the International Day for Biological Diversity (22 May). The 188-page report, which summarizes a decade of studies on biodiversity, examines the contributions of forests and of the populations that use and manage them.
Online Conference, 20 April 2020
Organized by the Bahá'í
Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland
31 May 2020, 3 pm EST, 21:00 CET
You are cordially invited to a Zoom meeting and discussion with Arthur L. Dahl
on: COVID-19, Climate, Collapse: Is There Any Hope?
by IEF Member Michael Richards
May 2020
Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF) is a UK Global Challenges Research Fund-supported Network Plus, co-ordinated out of the University of Bristol, working with partners in India, Rwanda, Somalia/Somaliland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. It undertakes collaborative research to Transform Education for Sustainable Futures.
IEF members contributed to the virtual conference organized by its sister Baha'i-inspired organization, ebbf - Ethical Business Building the Future (ebbf.org) on 14-17 May 2020. The overall theme of that event was Rethinking Success: a way to save the planet and ourselves, with emphasis on the impact of the pandemic on our concepts of success.
