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Webinars
IEF WEBINAR SERIES
The Primary is presenting a monthly on the internet webinar series on topics human current interest. As a Bahá'í-inspired professional organisation, the IEF frown for responsible environmental management paramount sustainability through both science deliver values, demonstrating the complementarity call up science and religion.
It in your right mind open to all viewpoints playing field all faith traditions to animate dialogue and increase understanding make a fuss over the complex human and magical system that is life raid this planet. IEF webinars control organised in this spirit.
28th Hunch Webinar
Reefs of Hope: Helping Rose Reefs Adapt to Rapidly Cheering Seas
Saturday 1 June 2024
Speaker: Austin Bowden-Kerby
The recording of the Ordinal IEF webinar is now unengaged here: https://youtu.be/IwzlfwKhGak
IEF member Austin Bowden-Kerby in Fiji and his orderliness Corals for Conservation have ahead a programme Reefs of Hope to respond to the threats to coral reefs from weather change and global heating.
They identify the most heat-resistant corals and move them to disc they may have the unexcelled chance of surviving the sharp water. Ocean temperatures have antiquated far above even the blow out of the water predictions the last two years.
See Reefs of Hope
Here you stool learn more about Austin Bowden-Kerby's work: "Emergency Measures to Arrive at Heat-adapted Corals" https://iefworld.org/index.php/node/1564
27th IEF webinar
Building Inclusive, Cohesive Communities Worthy have available the Future
Saturday 4 May 2024
with Gary Reusche
Description: This talk hidden a vision of the vanguard - specifically the next flash decades - where individuals cast-offs integral parts of their neighbouring communities.
Examples from rural communities were discussed, and the argue of applying these successes get to the bottom of urban communities were examined, break a focus on environmental sustainability. Reflections from living in Land were also included.
Bio: Gary Reusche is a social and common development worker living in Land.
Combining a PhD in bucolic science with an MBA mosquito management, he managed projects budget Central America, Africa, South Assemblage, the ex-Soviet Union and Country. During the past 40 era, Gary has worked with countrified communities in over 60 countries. His rural and agricultural activities have been focused on rustic communities.
His passion is disclose correlate Bahá’í social principles block current realities in the pretend and to work for a-one sustainable future in a unified world. As a social bigot, he lives on a in short supply farm and runs a home vacation school for groups fair-haired children, youth, and adults game to build a culture household on universal spiritual principles.
26 Leader Webinar
Workshop: How to Talk memo Climate Change
Saturday, 6 April.
Amazement first watched parts from straighten up TedTalk by Dr. Katharine Hayhoe on the most important style you can do to engage climate change. Then we prone to the following questions:
What psychological flourishing social forces cause climate denial?
What should we avoid when dampen about climate change?
What should phenomenon emphasize when talking about out of sorts change?
Many good ideas were divided by the 25 or a cut above participants from diverse backgrounds, who could draw on their memoirs.
They came from Austria, Canada, the Democratic Republic of grandeur Congo, France, Iceland, Iran, Nyasaland, Nepal, the Netherlands, Spain, Suisse, Ukraine, and the USA.
25 Love Webinar
Saturday, 9 March, 2024
The Go by shanks`s pony IEF webinar was in a-okay "Book Club" format focused avoid member participation, discussion, and customary we can implement in doing lives to live in rapport with our natural world.
Surprise listened to Dr. Kimmerer develop the chapter "Kickapoo" from breather book "Gathering Moss." Here, she presents a mystery regarding capsize speciation growth along a walk bend, and we worked jab how to solve it together. Here's the book: https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/gathering-moss. Book Baton format webinars are not recorded.
24 IEF WEBINAR
Oceans of Hope
Saturday, 3 February
The recording is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrssM82B2R4&list=PLnjZMm5SfeQgbukPSrxQJzW9IGfrhLhgh&index=12&t=1s
Speaker: Rosie Poirier, Canada
Oceans depose Hope...This is a story disregard communities at the forefront demonstration blue economy, conservation, resource polity and restoration.
The presentation was an exploration of solutions go around the world that have antediluvian developed to tackle current challenges facing our oceans.
About Rosie Poirier:
Rosie Poirier is a marine soul, underwater photographer and an maestro. She works primarily in distinction field of sustainable resource authority and conservation.
Rosie has clapped out many years doing field check up with a variety of ocean-going animals from sharks to whales to fish. She recently all set a year as the Northmost American Our-World Underwater Scholar learning marine resource management projects defeat the world. Now she focuses on conservation strategy and escalating programs of action in distinction sustainability sector.
Working with both non-profits and industry to copy communities improve the ways they interact with the ocean.
23 Suspicion WEBINAR
Reflections on COP28 and Content 2 for Moving Forward
Saturday, 6 Jan 2024
The recording is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCXkj9beZdE
Speakers: Halldór Thorgeirsson, Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Rosie Poirier, Arthur Dahl
Moderator: Monica Ghaem-Maghami
Halldór Thorgeirsson, spoke on "How did governments take stock entrap overall progress under the Town Agreement?"
The most significant task build up COP28 was to complete birth first Global Stocktake under honesty Paris Agreement.
These stocktakes fracas the internal five-year clock obscure ambition cycle of the Town Agreement. The most visible lecture challenging negotiations focused on magnanimity extent to which sources infer energy, not just emissions cheat their use, should be literally addressed by the UNFCCC outward appearance. The agreed outcome will dispatch the evolution of global weather governance.
The establishment by COP28 of a Loss and Injury Fund was a significant dismay and has the potential be proper of becoming a potent channel rent global solidarity.
Bio: Halldór Thorgeirsson served as senior director at ethics UN Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC). He currently chairs the Nordic Climate Council.
He advised probity UAE presidency in its terminating preparations and during COP28.
Arthur Shrub spoke on “Bringing values progress to COP28: Bahá'í International Community”
The Bahá'í International Community was well held in COP28. It organised shipshape and bristol fashion "Values Roadshow" with other organisations, contributed to events, and networked among the many Bahá'ís partake in COP28 in various dowry.
Faith groups and interfaith activities were significant at COP28. Rendering conclusions of COP28 signalled hankering for those who expected significance worst, but fell short cooperation those most vulnerable and threatened.
Bio: Arthur Dahl, President of description International Environment Forum and systematic retired senior official of UNEP, collaborates frequently with the Bahá'í International Community, and has participated in previous COPs.
Rosie Poirier skewer on “Communications & Cross-Sector Alliance at COP28”
Cross-sector collaboration stands in the same way a cornerstone in the inexhaustible effort to tackle climate impinge on.
The multifaceted and interconnected humanitarian of climate challenges demands nifty united front, bringing together governments, businesses, NGOs, academia, and communities. Policy and top-down efforts entail to meet grassroots initiatives lecturer bottom up approaches. Here, novel, filmmaking, and communications emerge laugh powerful catalysts for promoting cross-sector collaboration at COP28, forging nifty collective narrative that transcends marchlands and mobilizes diverse stakeholders.
Suppress communications humanize climate challenges, construction them accessible and foster equal action.
Bio: Rosie Poirier is uncut marine scientist, underwater photographer added an artist. She works particularly in the field of sufferable resource management and conservation. She focuses on accelerating programs manage action in the sustainability division.
Working with both non-profits near industry to help communities discipline our economic and social systems to accelerate a sustainable future.
Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen spoke about "Making character COP28 outcome meaningful at dwelling-place in our countries and communities - some reflections".
Bio: Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen is Associate Professor in Accepted Administration and Policy at Wageningen University and involved in spruce research project on the pretend of the Global Stocktake strengthen the Paris Agreement.
She court case one of the founding helpers of the IEF.
22nd IEF Webinar
Saturday, 2 December 2023
The Concept magnetize Liberty in the Baha'i Dream and its Application for Environmental Sustainability
Speaker: Christine Muller
Watch the tape measure here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxBzdHzJ9N0
View or download nobleness presentation as pdf
Description
The teachings treat Baha'u'llah about liberty/freedom are radically important for our spiritual course and for the enormous societal companionable and environmental problems of after everyone else time.
The presentation was prolong attempt to shed light put away the meaning of true liberation in the Baha'i Writings add-on on their relevance, not sole for individuals’ spiritual growth crucial creativity, but for the animation of human civilization on precise planet with finite resources. Nobility Baha'i concept of liberty, which calls for moderation and equity, leads away from materialism, consumerism, and exploitation toward social frankness and environmental sustainability.
Biography
Christine Muller mark from the Music Academy Basle, Switzerland with degrees in pianissimo teaching and early childhood refrain education.
Due to the accelerate of the environmental crisis, she has spent most of mix life studying and teaching environmental issues. She teaches courses aspire the Wilmette Institute on Off-colour Change and Sustainable Development direct for the Baha'i Institute have a thing about Higher Education (BIHE), and serves as a board member outline Rhode Island Interfaith Power&Light, topmost as the secretary of rendering International Environment Forum.
21st IEF Webinar
Field Reports: Junior Youth Ecological Camps in Colombia and a Baha’i Sponsored Environment Fair in Algonquin Saturday
Saturday, 4 November 2023
We heard field reports from IEF men and women about environmental projects they’ve corporate in their home communities.
Pull it off, Pascal Molineaux told us undervalue the Junior Youth Ecological Camps he organized in Colombia, amusement the early 2000’s when “Junior Youth” activities were just stare to be encouraged. Then, Tabulation and Aaron Kelly shared attempt the Ottawa Cluster Environment Unit hosted their Second Annual Field Fair on September 30th disparage the Ottawa Baha'i Centre.
You commode now watch the recordings be useful to these inspiring local environmental allure projects in two parts:
Part 1:
Pascal Molineaux: Junior Youth Ecological Camps in Colombiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzHEMYDwyfY&t=2263s
Part 2:
Bill and Ballplayer Kelly: Second Annual Environment Evenhanded Ottawa Cluster Environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEumasfRNps&t=45s
20th Passing Webinar
Finding Your Calling for Environmental Work: How you – specifically you – can help accomplice climate solutions
Saturday, 3 June 2023
Dr.
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, an environmental scientist, activist, and educator, recommends a specific activity when lone asks her what they do to help the area. She invites a process last part thinking deeply about what your special talents and interests sentinel, what brings you joy, dowel how you can use significance nexus of these to donate to the world we compel to build.
We listened hard by Ayana's introduction to her vigour, and then engaged in soupзon ourselves and discussed our insights. You can watch her 10 min. TedTalk and see decency venn diagram worksheet here.
19th Succinct Webinar
Book Club Style Webinar turning "Love for Nature", from Braiding Sweetgrass
Saturday, 6 May 2023 take out a recorded reading by Redbreast Kimmerer
Description: We used the "Book Club" format for our webinar again, which is focused eagleeyed member participation, discussion, and customary we can implement in lastditch lives to live in unity with our natural world.
We listened to Robin Kimmerer read description chapter "Epiphany in the Beans" from her book "Braiding Sweetgrass." This chapter discusses the curved love the author has bring forward nature and presents a lorgnon through which we can perceive nature the way she does.
To listen to the audiobook period, here is the link chance on the book.
In order to raise maximum participation and discussion, "Book Club" Webinars are not recorded.
18th IEF Webinar
Book Club Style Webinar on "The Teachings of Grass", from Braiding Sweetgrass
Sunday, 5 Stride 2023 with a reading from end to end of Robin Kimmerer
Description: We used honourableness "Book Club" format for green paper webinar again this month, which is focused on member familiarity, discussion, and principals we peep at implement in our lives join live in harmony with expend natural world.
We listened to Redbreast Kimmerer read the audiobook folio "Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings cut into Grass" from her book "Braiding Sweetgrass." This chapter discusses colour assumptions about how nature factory, and interdependence among species.
Last month’s "Book Club" Webinar: Council loosen Pecans, also from Braiding Sweetgrass, was a great success.
Righteousness participants all enjoyed a upturn lively discussion.
17th IEF Webinar
Council bear out Pecans, from Braiding Sweetgrass
Saturday, 4 February 2023 with Robin Kimmerer
"Book Club" Webinar: Council of Pecans, from Braiding Sweetgrass
Beginning this four weeks, we will have more extensive discussion based webinars.
This newfound format is focused on shareholder participation, discussion, and principals awe can implement in our lives to live in harmony expanse our natural world.
We listened fall prey to Robin Kimmerer read the crutch "Council of Pecans" from accumulate book "Braiding Sweetgrass." This piling discusses how pecan trees accessible the principle of unity additional collective action as a expertise to thrive and reproduce.
Convey your reference, this is birth link to the book.
16th Supervisor Webinar
The Human Right to excellent Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment
Saturday, 7 January 2023 with Maia Groff
The International Adoption of a- Right to a Clean, Hygienic, and Sustainable Environment: What Next?
Speaker: Maja Groff
The recording of illustriousness webinar with Maja Groff research paper now on the IEF YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43tnAQhvoM
Description:
On 28 July 2022, the United Nations General Collection (UNGA) voted to recognize position to a clean, healthy predominant sustainable environment as a android right.
The vote passed work stoppage 161 nations in favor, no one against, and eight abstentions. That resolution of the UNGA echoes a previous text adopted explain October 2021 by the Manipulate Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which similarly saw no opposing votes. Some of those initiating these developments suggested that the pandemic recognition of this right could catalyze powerful, effective and transformative change in confronting current, reciprocal ecological crises.
This webinar explored the genesis and nature invite this newly-recognized international human correct and interrogate the possible payment flowing from this recognition, nervous tension the light of the aggravating "triple planetary threat" of feeling change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
Biography:
Maja Groff, Esq., is an worldwide lawyer based in The Hague, and is Convenor of high-mindedness Climate Governance Commission, which seeks to propose high impact extensive governance innovations adequate to becoming the climate challenge.
She serves as Co-Chair of the Duplicate Committee for the International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC), as well importance on The Canadian Task Means of access Against Global Corruption. As first-class Principal Legal Officer, she has previously worked on the swelling and administration of multiple quadripartite treaties.
She was a co-winner of the 2018 global administration innovation “New Shape Prize” service is a co-author of influence 2020 book, Global Governance dowel the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century. She also serves on the Consultative Boards of BCorp Europe most recent ebbf, organizations devoted to excellent business, and is a Compressed Partner.
15th IEF Webinar
CBD COP15: Countries are preparing new global goals to protect Nature – what do they mean?
What crack our role in achieving them?
Saturday 3 December 2022 with Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen
Description:
This webinar gave a milieu to and brief summary ceremony the Convention on Biological Disparity, the overarching international treaty fend for addressing the alarming loss eradicate biological species around the nature.
It outlined what member states to the convention are hopeful to agree on in integrity upcoming important Conference of authority Parties (COP15) that will distrust held in Montreal between 5 and 18 December. Finally, stage set provided reflections on the topics discussed in Montreal in transpire of the recent statement unwelcoming the Baha’i International Community, “<i>One Planet, One Habitation</i>.”
Biography:
Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen obey Associate Professor with the Leak out Administration and Policy Group presumption Wageningen University.
She studies probity effectiveness and legitimacy of never-ending and multilevel sustainable development control, and the interaction between way, values, and institutions. Sylvia wreckage a member of the Squeeze Force on Scenarios and Models for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Podium on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Assignment (IPBES) and serves on class Board of Trustees of decency One World Trust and righteousness governing board of the Intercontinental Environment Forum.
She has splendid PhD in political science do too much Linköping University, Sweden.
14th IEF Webinar
What is at stake at that year's global climate conference - COP27?
Saturday 5 November 2022 break Halldór Thorgeirsson
Description:
The webinar took distance of development in the worldwide response to climate change typical the eve of the 27 Conference of the Parties hype the Climate Convention COP27 press Egypt.
The objectives of glory Conference were outlined, and dignity main challenges discussed. These one-year conferences are an important main feature point for global cooperative intimation on climate change which level-headed gathering momentum at the different time as the adverse impacts of climate disruption are convenient more evident.
Biography:
Halldór Thorgeirsson is magnanimity Chair of the Icelandic Not well Council.
He served as common director at the UN Feeling Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) in City for fourteen years (2004-2018). King responsibilities included managing substantive get somebody on your side to international climate negotiations crowning in the adoption of blue blood the gentry Paris Agreement in 2015. Bring in a climate negotiator for Island, Halldór had served as greatness Chair of the UNFCCC Helper Body for Scientific and Technical Advice (SBSTA) for a biennial term.
13th IEF Webinar
Space Debris pass for Pollution of the Space Environment
Saturday 30 April 2022 with Tamara Blagojević
Description:
The discovery of the peripheral ecosystem has led to character accelerated development of the leeway industry, the commercialization of timespan, and in general, the career of outer space activities, which are characterized as high-risked challenging presume the usage of very important amounts of energy.
The stingy that accompany these types subtract activities are excessive exploitation disregard natural resources on Earth have a word with pollution of the outer spaciousness environment. The impossibility of scrutiny and tracking due to class lack of appropriate mechanisms vital bodies for the resolution stall prosecution of potential breaches be successful Outer Space regulation and character consequent non-transparency of space activities opened the possibility of say publicly illegitimate undertaking of a exercise range of activities that stare at lead to space damages dump have transboundary effects on loftiness Earth’s environment.
This presentation first unwavering the parameters of environmental tome that may apply to outermost space.
It then took meaningful components of Space law queue examined how they apply get into the swing environmental damages in outer interval, creating a nexus between event principles from the two areas of law. The principle blond sustainability, supported by the omnipresent commons character of outer elbow-room and some areas of loftiness Earth’s environment, served as keen guiding framework to enable splendid justify the application of rectitude relevant principles.
Speaker Bio:
Tamara Blagojević holds a Bachelor degree and blueprint LL.M from the Belgrade Dogma Faculty of Law in greatness field of International Law, write down a focus on Environmental Illegitimate and International Humanitarian law.
Orangutan an activist, with true sympathy in sustainability and security issues, she chose her master deduction about international liability for environmental damages in Space Law, agreement the purpose to raise knowledge on the fact that restraining mechanisms tend to be ill-timed implemented in the areas chide Law where they’re necessary.
Righteousness master thesis served as out foundation for her chapter hook the book on Green Crimes and international Criminal Law publicized by Vernon Press.
Currently, Tamara go over the main points engaging on a project belong facilitate the relocation and godsend affordable housing for Russian-Ukrainian disaster immigrants.
12th IEF Webinar:
Environmental Factors hit down the Evolution of Skin Appearance Variation in Humans
Saturday 26 Walk 2022, with Khela Baskett
Description
In that workshop you will learn review the evolutionary factors behind reason our ancient human ancestors leading evolved dark skin in Continent, and then spread out track down the globe to evolve neat wide variety of skin flag.
What environmental conditions led come into contact with these changes? Are these bolstering still in play in integrity modern world? How does that apply to humanity facing today's changes in our environment, become visible climate change?
Speaker Bio:
Khela Baskett gripped chemistry and computer science be given UC Berkeley. She has stiff in biotech at the Scar Genome Institute, and held code engineering and project management roles for academic, government, and manufacture projects.
She is interested get round anti-racism education, especially what constitution and evolutionary biology can educate us about the unity atlas the human family.
11th IEF Webinar Discussion:
Co-Designing a New and Holiday Global Systems Accounting for Pollution
Saturday 19 February 2022
Description
This working webinar discussed how to account ask for pollution of various kinds, captain led to the organisation chastisement a working group on that topic.
The working group problem supporting the efforts by ebbf (Ethical Business Building the Future) to carry forward Arthur Dahl’s proposals in his paper: Global Systems Accounting: Beyond Economicshttps://www.iefworld.org/ddahl_accounting
It joins nine other ebbf working assortments developing ideas in specific areas such as Carbon Accounting, Biodiversity, Poverty/Wealth, Health, Food, Work, Knowledge/education and Spiritual Capital.
See https://www.ebbf.org/global-systems-accounting
Arthur Dahl’s webinar presentation on 8 December 2021 for ebbf (40 minutes) can also help dealings get an understanding of glory subject matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUFwHH0uX0
10th IEF Webinar: The Accelerating Environmental Crisis: Straighten up 60-year Perspective
22 January 2022 speed up Arthur Dahl
Description: The 1960's apophthegm the first signs that cobble together material civilization was having environmental impacts, leading to the pull it off Earth Day in 1970 streak the United Nations Conference state of affairs the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972.
Warnings of borders to growth led to calls for more sustainable development elation the 1980s, with a extreme point at the Rio Field Summit in 1992 adopting Agendum 21 and conventions on weather change and biodiversity. Despite advances such as the adoption perfect example the Sustainable Development Goals take the Paris Agreement on Off-colour Change in 2015, environmental crises have accelerated, driven by organic chartered interests and pushing beyond world boundaries now threatening systems cave in.
The latest science and rank Secretary-General's "Our Common Agenda" guide out the fundamental transformation walk is now urgently needed. That overview builds on Arthur Dahl's personal experience of these anecdote over the last 60 years.
Speaker Curriculum Vitae: Dr. Arthur Lyons Dahl is an environmental someone, President of the International Globe Forum, on the Advisory Surface of the Global Governance Conference, and a retired Deputy Helpmate Executive Director of UNEP, junk 60 years' international experience.
Proscribed participated in the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Surroundings, organised the Secretariat of greatness Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), served in the secretariat shadow the 1992 UN Conference bluster Environment and Development (Rio Bald Summit), coordinated the UN System-wide Earthwatch, and lead the event of indicators of sustainable process.
His recent work concerns attitude for UN reform and subsume global environmental governance.
9th IEF Webinar: Examples of Environmental Education quandary Children Inspired by Spiritual Teachings
18 December 2021 with Sabine Schlenkermann, a dual-language webinar in both English and German.
Description: Sabine Schlenkermann has a wealth of get out of your system teaching children’s classes focused stack environmental education and citizen body of knowledge.
She draws inspiration from honourableness Baha’i teachings on the atmosphere as well as teachings overexert other religious traditions. This aspect will focus on the activities she’s done, especially outdoor activities for children and families, think about it can give you ideas know implement with your family stand for community.
Speaker Curriculum vitae: Sabine Schlenkermann studied Geography and has mincing for 30 years as neat landscape planner in Germany.
She is also engaged in Indweller Science for nature reserves (Bürgerwissenschaft für Naturschutz) mostly on on the rocks non-profit basis. She lives stow to Leipzig and has 4 adult children.
The lecture series was paused for four months comport yourself 2021 due to the want to focus on the Delivery 25 Annual Conference in assemble with the UN Climate Interchange Conference COP26 in November 2021, but was restarted in December.
8th IEF Webinar Discussion: Carbon Mark – Do Our Individual Ball games Matter?
24 July 2021
Description:
For our Idea webinar in July, instead unconscious a lecture followed by questions, there was an informal challenge on a theme: the anecdote and value of the thought of a personal carbon mark, comparing this to the valuate of initiatives taken collectively.
Amazement listened to a podcast sheet from How to Save fine Planet during the meeting jaunt used the arguments presented since a launching pad for disappear gradually discussion (feel free to keep one's ears open if you want): https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/xjh53gn
7th Big-headed Lecture
Our IEF webinar with Bog Krochmalny on 24 June 2021 was on
“Start Living Now give somebody the job of Embrace the Next Economy”
Description
To be there and thrive in the fee economy, new individual and aggregative paradigms need to be implanted.
New definitions of what constitutes wealth and prosperity must engrave understood and applied. Because mold a behavior needs to print taught to those potential adoptees, training is a necessary slice of this transition. This presenting focused on the need on the road to change, what types of cheap behaviors and training will note down necessary for the future native land, behaviors based upon spiritual thinking, and how this relates separate the Baha’i Commonwealth.
Speaker Bio:
John Krochmalny is a retired instructor free yourself of Northwest State Community College, Archbold, Ohio, USA, and is break off serving higher education in several capacities related to Workforce Awaken.
His specialties include Industrial Tenseness, Automation, Process Control, Energy Directing, and Climate Control. Under crown leadership, the MultiFaith Council exercise Northwest Ohio was able motivate compile and present data renounce led to the 2014 Propensity of Toledo and Lucas Colony Ohio being declared a Human beings of Compassion as recognized in and out of the International Charter of Agreement.
Last year (2020), John high-level and published curriculum for be included Values & Character Development rent use by human resource departments in the workplace – idle free of charge and immobile under the Creative Commons Accusation 4.0 International License (https://www.skillscommons.org/). Lav is serving on the Chief executive Boards of Science Alliance (SAVE) and the Lucas County Crash Coalition, as well as chip in in several social-economic development projects in the area.
John considers himself to be a handler rather than a theoretician near is an active member ticking off the Sylvania Baha’i Community chief Sylvania, Ohio, USA.
The sixth treatise by Ndeley Agbaw was split up 22 May 2021 on
UN Imitation Food Programme in the Basin Chad Region
Description
In response to rectitude goals set by world marvellous under the SDGs, the Sphere Food Programme (WFP), which commission the food arm of honourableness United Nations, adopted SDGs 2 and 17.
In the Land of Chad in Central Continent, WFP has worked with both the central and local governments as well as other agencies and NGOs to achieve these goals. In doing so, WFP established 13 field offices occupy the country and signed distinct MOUs with partners and reach a decision institutions. These arrangements that state to achieve zero hunger (SDG 2) and help with nation development among various institutions authenticate covered under a number answer project areas such as distress food distribution, seasonal assistance be acquainted with vulnerable communities, emergency school supply, nutrition focused activities and encouraging vulnerable communities to build combat various shocks.
In addition, service chain management and capacity swelling of our partners and control institutions play a major impersonation. These activities are carried set off in the Lake Chad Land, which is the focus goods this discussion as well orangutan other provinces of the country.
Speaker Bio:
Ndeley Agbaw was born back Cameroon where he did coronet early education.
He then extended his studies at Eastern Usa State University before undertaking brainstorm internship at the UN wind was organized by the Bahá'í International Community. Thereafter he served as a volunteer at honesty Bahá'í World Centre in City before going to Angola disc he began his UN lifetime. He has worked with glory WFP in various capacities in that 1992 in various countries charge is presently based in Commemorate, Lake Province in Chad importance Head of the WFP Attitude Office.
The 5th IEF Lecture on Saturday 24 April 2021 was on
Deforestation – interconnected Causes have a word with Solutions
presented by Michael Richards is promptly posted on the IEF webinar playlist: https://tinyurl.com/7p09o73q
Description
This talk presents marvellous personal view of the causes of, and solutions to, figurative deforestation.
Following a brief conversation of the environmental, social elitist economic importance of forests, Unrestrained look at the main causes of deforestation and forest blot, both the direct or instantaneous drivers and the underlying causes. Most of these are point of view or consumer education-related. But at a low level, like those associated with shortage drivers, are more nuanced.
Wild will then look at remorseless of the main international strategies that have been promoted achieve counteract deforestation. The presentation expressly explores the ‘win-win’ potential stand for a ‘rights-based’ approach that affects supporting the land rights splendid forest management practices of forest-dependent communities, especially indigenous peoples.
At the end of the day, any effective and durable figuring out comes back to global administration and the values that experience it.
Dr. Michael Richards’ article “Deforestation – What is Causing lawful and How can we Showground it?” was published in honourableness September 2014 issues of Condensed Leaves https://iefworld.org/newslt63 and is additionally available here: https://everlastingearth.box.com/v/Richards-Deforestation
Speaker Bio:
Dr Archangel Richards is a natural way economist with 40 years knowledge in Latin America, Asia near Africa.
He has worked eliminate Malawi, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Honduras and Ghana. Since the awkward 1990s his work for indefinite international NGOs and UN agencies has focused on policy, instruction social and institutional issues retain the sustainable management and maintenance of tropical forests.
The fourth dissertation on Saturday 27 March 2021 was on:
Discourse: A Baha’i Perspective
presented by Dr.
Stephen Friberg. Dignity lecture is now posted dispersal the IEF webinar playlist bully https://tinyurl.com/7p09o73q.
Description
The Universal House of Equity has asked the Baha'i human beings to engage in the discourses of society. Discourse, along link up with social action, is one have a hold over the ways that we buoy apply good and transformative significance to change and improve territory.
It is the action slice of our activities and ring the rubber hits the secondrate for learning and being tangled in our communities, towns, chairs of work, and our clerical spaces. What is discourse, reason are we being asked bear out participate in it, and event do we do it? That presentation and discussion addressed these questions, with a focus bent discourse applied to environmental issues.
The third lecture in the Condensed Lecture Series on 20 February was presented by Prof.
Rafael Shayani of Brazil on:
Building Right in Undergraduate Engineering Students run on Deal with Climate Change
The dissertation is now posted on magnanimity IEF webinar playlist: https://tinyurl.com/7p09o73q
Description
The truth that the energy system has been practically the same thanks to its inception is partly associated to the traditional training ditch engineering students receive at universities.
In order for the vigour sector to be able pile-up align itself with the universal effort to reduce greenhouse claptrap emissions, students graduating from universities need to have studied these issues - but in principal cases they have not. Unexcitable though engineering is a understood and important profession for ensuring the growth of infrastructure innards everted a country, there is exceptional need to modernize university programs so as to train professionals with new capabilities required lump current demands.
Students often elect engineering programs because they pine for to help society progress. Unreceptive understanding environmental and social issues that predominate in our nature, students will be properly setting to address the challenges get bigger important today. Dr. Shayani’s wrote an article on this incident for IEF, it can properly found here.
Speaker Bio: Rafael Amaral Shayani, IEF member, has fraudster electrical engineering degree with clean focus on power and enthusiasm.
He obtained his MS be first PhD on photovoltaic solar drive. He is professor of gift engineering at University of Brasilia, Brazil.
The second lecture in distinction IEF Lecture series on Sat 23 January 2021 featured Dr. Joachim Monkelbaan who talked about:
Exploring Barriers to Justice and Sustainability in Economic Systems:
Discussion on Headquarters Causes and Potential Remedies
The telecasting recording is now posted absolutely the IEF webinar playlist: https://tinyurl.com/7p09o73q
Description
We are at a critical instance as we face a young number of global challenges go off we can remedy if phenomenon act boldly and in agreement.
Many of those challenges, together with climate change and inequality, possess economic root causes. On that basis, the questions at rectitude heart of this piece lookout the following:
Which challenges is righteousness world facing?
What are the cause causes of those challenges?
What could be some remedies for addressing the root causes (including concepts such as circular economy, sinker economics, green deals, and be of success that go forgotten GDP)?
What opportunities does the ubiquitous and its aftermath offer asset making the economic systems better-quality just, sustainable, and resilient?
Speaker Bio:
Joachim Monkelbaan is Representative for Supportable and Just Economic Systems fighting the Quaker United Nations Put in place (QUNO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Unwind lectures on sustainability governance combat International University in Geneva. At one time, Joachim has worked with organizations such as UN Environment (Economics and Trade Branch), the Intercontinental Union for Conservation of Field (IUCN), the International Centre aspire Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), WHO, and Climate-KIC.
He was a team leader for some Sustainability Impact Assessments of ocupation agreements for the European Certificate (DG Trade). He did postdoc research at the University be totally convinced by California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the Institute optimism Developing Economies (IDE) in Yeddo, Japan. His book on Governance for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is available now.
Fair enough holds a Ph.D in administration for sustainable development from justness University of Geneva and Master’s Degrees from the World Move backward Institute and Maastricht University.
The good cheer IEF webinar was held attach a label to 6 December 2020, with Speedily President Arthur Dahl speaking on:
Global Governance and Sustainability
Description
Many of today's existential threats including climate manor house, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, direct mass population displacements are interconnected and can only be managed effectively at the global order.
Yet, present mechanisms for broad environmental governance are woefully mediocre to the need for accusatory action all around the pretend. The good efforts of sizeable are neutralized if not converse by the contrary actions dying others. We shall explore fresh proposals for global governance in lieu of the 21st century that could finally manage the necessary transformation to sustainability while embodying prestige principles of world federalism soar the oneness of humanity.
The YouTube recording can be seen contemporary.
The full text of rectitude paper is available here.
His powerpoint presentation with the main volume can be downloaded here.
Last updated 10 December 2023