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Faith for Earth: Climate Change and Environmental Justice
Event Date: 
Thu, 2020/06/04
Venue: 
Online

Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have been recognized as important players in protecting the environment and working towards climate justice. Their agility is crucial, especially at the local level and with other faith actors. 

 

In recent years, policymakers have begun to engage FBOs in environmental conservation and natural resources management as representatives of sustainable institutions. Tapping into the spiritual wealth of people and their beliefs stimulates people’s engagement and the organizational drive to contribute.

 

The Faith for Earth Initiative’s mission is to encourage, empower and engage with faith-based organizations as partners, at all levels, toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and fulfilling the 2030 Agenda.

 

KAICIID, UNODC, the Coalition of Faith-Based Organizations and Faith for Earth, UNEP are hosting a special webinar on the issue of Faith and Environment within the 2030 Agenda, inviting leading experts to discuss climate change action and best practices for environmental justice. 

 

Moderator:  Dr Michael Platzer, Co-Chair of the Coalition of Faith-based Organizations

 

Speakers:

 

  • Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, Earth Institute
  • Kiran Bali, Global Chairperson, United Religions Initiative
  • Dr Harald Egeger, Head of the UN Environment Programme, Vienna Office
  • Jorge Rios, Chief of the Sustainable Livelihoods Unit and the Global Programme for Combating Wildlife and Forest Crime, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
  • Professor Roberto Manuel Carlés, President, Society of Social Defense

 

Date: 04 June, 2020   Time: 3:00 PM (CEST)

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See more details on KAICIID.

 

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FBO Coalition Webinar Series: The FBO Coalition is a broadly-based multi-faith coalition of leading representatives of the world’s great religious traditions, along with interfaith leaders, academics, and practitioners actively engaged in various areas of criminal justice and crime prevention. The FBO Coalition encourages responsible collaboration with various UN agencies, most notably the UNODC, the Inter-Agency Task Force on Religion and Sustainable Development, and ECOSOC. The FBO Coalition is working in partnership with the Vienna-based NGO Alliance for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The FBO Coalition Webinar Series will feature programs every three weeks. Upcoming programs will focus on topics such as: Ethics and Governance; Social Justice; Rehabilitation; Restorative Justice; Gender Justice; Environmental Crime.

 

URL:

https://www.unenvironment.org/events/symposium/faith-earth-climate-change-and-environmental-justice