Skip Main Navigation
Eventbrite
Browse Events
Organise
Help
Log InSign Up
Menu
Page Content
This event has ended.
CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL POLLUTION, BIODIVERSITY: CAN WE TURN THE CORNER?

Actions Panel

Apr 07

CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL POLLUTION, BIODIVERSITY: CAN WE TURN THE CORNER?

To overcome our environmental crises, we need to rethink our human purpose, our economy and our systems of governance.

By Cambridge Festival

When and where

Date and time

Thu, 7 April 2022, 20:00 – 21:00 BST

Location

Online

About this event

To overcome our environmental crises, we need to rethink our human purpose, our economy and our systems of governance, with young people in the lead.

Find out more about this important topic during a talk by Dr Arthur Dahl, who studied at Stanford University, worked as a senior official of UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), was involved in drafting Agenda 21 for the Rio Earth Summit and coordinated UN Earthwatch. He is also president of the Bahá?í-inspired International Environment Forum.

Our multiple environmental crises including climate change, biodiversity loss and global pollution are all driven by the failing economic and governance systems of our materialistic consumer society. In a world of extreme inequality, it is the affluent who are most responsible. Only a transformation in values redefining our higher human purpose can set us individually and collectively on the path to building a more just and sustainable society.

From the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, where he represented the Baha'i International Community, to Stockholm+50 in 2022, environmental scientist Dr. Arthur Lyon Dahl (http://yabaha.net/dahl) has devoted his life to the scientific, institutional and spiritual changes that are needed. Inspired by coral reef ecology and a decade advising remote Pacific Island countries, he helped to draft Agenda 21 for the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, became a senior official of the United Nations Environment Programme, coordinated the UN System-wide Earthwatch, and won the prestigious New Shape Prize in 2018 for proposals on global governance.

As president of the International Environment Forum (https://iefworld.org) and advisor to the Global Governance Forum (https://globalgovernanceforum.org), he is working on the positive transformations that can give hope in the future. His books include “The Eco Principle: Ecology and Economics in Symbiosis”, “In Pursuit of Hope: A Guide for the Seeker” and most recently, co-authored with Augusto Lopez-Claros and Maja Groff, “Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century”, Cambridge University Press (2020).

Organised by the Cambridge University Baha’i Society

Tags

  • Online Events
  • Online Seminars
Event ended

CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL POLLUTION, BIODIVERSITY: CAN WE TURN THE CORNER?


Follow this organiser to stay informed on future events

Cambridge Festival

Event creator

Events you might like

  • Climate Solutions|Meet the Experts|COP15:Climate Change & Biodiversity Loss

    Climate Solutions|Meet the Experts|COP15:Climate Change & Biodiversity Loss
    Climate Solutions|Meet the Experts|COP15:Climate Change & Biodiversity Loss

    Tue, Feb 14, 2023 2:00 PM GMT (+00:00)
    £2 - £4
  • INSITEs Into - Marine Biodiversity

    INSITEs Into - Marine Biodiversity
    INSITEs Into - Marine Biodiversity

    Wed, Feb 15, 2023 11:30 AM GMT (+00:00)
    Free
  • Discovering Biodiversity: Going Beyond the Limits of Our Eyes

    Discovering Biodiversity: Going Beyond the Limits of Our Eyes
    Discovering Biodiversity: Going Beyond the Limits of Our Eyes

    Thu, Feb 23, 2023 11:00 AM EST (-05:00)
    Free
  • Women in Biodiversity Webinar

    Women in Biodiversity Webinar
    Women in Biodiversity Webinar

    Thu, Feb 9, 2023 11:00 AM GMT (+00:00)
    Free
  • Parasites in Biodiversity Conservation: Friend or Foe?

    Parasites in Biodiversity Conservation: Friend or Foe?
    Parasites in Biodiversity Conservation: Friend or Foe?

    Wed, Feb 15, 2023 12:30 PM GMT (+00:00)
  • Delivering Biodiversity Net Gain in Hertfordshire

    Delivering Biodiversity Net Gain in Hertfordshire
    Delivering Biodiversity Net Gain in Hertfordshire

    Wed, Feb 15, 2023 2:00 PM GMT (+00:00)
    Free
  • Genomics Lite:  Biodiversity Genomics in Focus

    Genomics Lite: Biodiversity Genomics in Focus
    Genomics Lite: Biodiversity Genomics in Focus

    Thu, Feb 23, 2023 4:30 PM GMT (+00:00)
    Free
  • Environmental Justice and Environmental Pollution in Nigeria

    Environmental Justice and Environmental Pollution in Nigeria
    Environmental Justice and Environmental Pollution in Nigeria

    Thu, Feb 9, 2023 12:00 PM GMT (+00:00)
    Free
  • Earth Optimism Webinar: Saving the Darkness & Dimming Light Pollution

    Earth Optimism Webinar: Saving the Darkness & Dimming Light Pollution
    Earth Optimism Webinar: Saving the Darkness & Dimming Light Pollution

    Tue, Feb 21, 2023 7:00 PM EST (-05:00)
    Free
  • Climate Change and Football

    Climate Change and Football
    Climate Change and Football

    Tue, Feb 7, 2023 5:00 PM GMT (+00:00)
    Free

Site Navigation

Use Eventbrite

  • Create Events
  • Pricing
  • Eventbrite Boost
  • Eventbrite Mobile Ticket App
  • Eventbrite Check-In App
  • Eventbrite App Marketplace
  • Event Registration Software
  • Content Standards
  • FAQs
  • Sitemap

Plan events

  • Sell Tickets Online
  • Event Planning
  • Sell Concert Tickets Online
  • Event Payment System
  • Solutions for Professional Services
  • Event Management Software
  • Community Engagement
  • Virtual Events Platform
  • QR Codes for Event Check-In
  • Post your event online

Find events

  • Browse Online Events
  • Get the Eventbrite App

Connect with us

  • Report This Event
  • Help Centre
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
  • Community Guidelines
Eventbrite + Ticketfly

© 2023 Eventbrite