Youth Action

The International Environment Forum has a youth team planning outreach to the wider youth community around the world where there is such deep concern for the climate and environmental crises that threaten their future.

This page features their activities and provides resources specifically relevant to youth.

Youth Activities

Upcoming Activities

Upcoming activities will be posted here.

Past Activities 2024

The most recent IEF Youth Gathering took place on Sunday, 16 June. The youth discussed how to share some of the topics raised in the statement One Planet One Habitation with their peers. Elsa from Costa Rica wrote in a WhatsApp message "I really liked it!"

At their second gathering, the youth continued discussing their topic of hope by considering the dual forces of integration and disintegration and together share hopeful stories from our own communities:

The IEF Youth Team invited all youth to a first informal gathering on 18 February 2024:

Materials for Youth Study

Available as powerpoints for downloading (click on title) or as pdf for viewing or downloading

Climate Change: What You Can Do and pdf

From Climate Anxiety to Hope and pdf

Beyond the Consumer Economy and pdf

Youth Preparing for a Life of Service and pdf

Becoming Your True Self: Releasing Potential through Faith and pdf

Becoming Your True Self: Transforming Anxiety into Courage and pdf

Becoming Your True Self: Unity through Community and pdf

The Story of Stuff: A Baha'i-inspired Program for Youth

Young Person’s Guide To Systems Change, The Club of Rome, 29 March 2025

Issues of public discourse for youth. Presentations showing how to present a Bahá'í response to topics of deep concern to youth and junior youth (in pdf)