Scientific and Spiritual Dimensions of Climate Change - a Study Course
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The International Environment Forum is organising a free online course on climate change from 1 September – 9 November 2025. Inscriptions are already complete.
Climate change is already causing much human suffering and environmental degradation all over the world. It has become a central topic of public discourse, and any meaningful social action must be informed about this threat because it affects all aspects of human well-being.
The course is open to everyone and allows flexibility. Participants who are new to the science of climate change will find easy to understand explanations, and those already knowledgeable about climate change may skip these and focus their study on the spiritual dimensions.
Participants who previously studied the course materials reported that they now see the Baha’i Faith with new eyes and are more deeply committed to working for a new spiritual society with community-building activities, social action, and public discourse. Course participants can choose in which areas they would like to build capacity for service, be it to hold devotional gatherings, to lead fireside discussions, to teach children’s classes, to initiate meaningful service projects for junior youth, to identify their local environmental reality, or to engage in environmental social action or in public discourse. The timing for the course is perfect as it will prepare you for the discourse around COP30, the international climate conference in Brazil taking place immediately after the end of the course.
People of all, or no, religious backgrounds are welcome!
While the materials are available to anyone at any time, participants registered for the free course will have the opportunity to engage in weekly one hour Zoom discussions and in a written forum where they can exchange their views and share resources.
Faculty members are Christine Muller, Dr. Arthur Dahl, and Dr. Laurent Mesbah.