The International Environment Forum, as a Bahá'Ã-inspired professional organization for environment and sustainability, shares and upholds the principles and ideals of the Bahá'à Faith and supports its efforts to establish and promote peace, the unity of the human race, and an ever-advancing world civilization that preserves the ecological balance of the planet.
based on a report by IEF member
Austin Bowden-Kerby in Fiji
23 September 2023
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
22 September 2023
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has exposed the ‘hidden handbrakes’ blocking action to halt climate change. In an event on 22 September, the IIED showed that action to halt or reduce further climate change is being blocked by a range of ‘hidden handbrakes’ that the public are broadly unaware of and which range from legal obstacles to subsidies for fossil fuel companies and the architecture of the global financial system.
18-22 September 2023
Marking the halfway point to the 2030 Agenda, the SDG Summit and the Climate Ambition Summit aimed to provide renewed impetus for accelerating the pace of change in the fields of sustainable development and climate action, respectively. The 27th IEF Annual Conference was planned as virtual events in association with the UN Summits.
Monday 18 September 2023
A Statement by the
Climate Governance Commission
18 September 2023
The Climate Governance Commission has issued a Statement entitled Governing Our Planetary Emergency: Charting a Safe Path for a Workable Future, released for the UN General Assembly High-Level Week and Climate Week 18-22 September 2023. It is available here: https://ggin.stimson.org/governing-our-planetary-emergency/.
Freshwater Use
In pursuit of hope
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
International Court of Justice preparing
advisory opinion on climate change
29 March 2023, updated 4 September 2023
A Second Charter
Imagining a Renewed United Nations
Global Governance Forum 2023-2024
Call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Multi-faith Letter
Grassroots people of faith and leaders of religious institutions representing more than 1.5 billion persons have joined many others in calling for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to take action against the primary cause of global heating and climate change. They released a multi-faith letter (below), which has been endorsed by the International Environment Forum.