IUCN Virtual Dialogue - #BuildBackBetter - Spiritual Perspectives for a New Normal

Jun 25, 2020  11:00 - 13:00

Event URL:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vvLkf4IYSYqhBVUEDAq7bw
Hosted by: IUCN CEESP

An IUCN Virtual Dialogue - #BuildBackBetter: Spiritual Perspectives for a New Normal

Thursday 25 June: 6 - 8am (Washington DC); 11am – 1pm (London); 12 noon - 2pm (Geneva); 10pm – midnight (Fiji)

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People of faith and spirituality are thinking about, and offering guidance on, what an earth-centered, new normal, might look like, and how we can practically contribute to it.

To help and guide the IUCN and broader community as it thinks through other visions for a new post-2020 world, join the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP), its Specialist Group on Religions, Spirituality, Environmental Conservation and Climate Justice (ReSpECC) and the IUCN Nature-Culture Initiative, to talk with some of IUCN’s faith-based member organizations, members of the ReSpECC Specialist Group and others. More than ever before, we need Solidarity, Unity, and Change.

Speakers

· Dr Fazlun Khalid, Founder, Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Science

· Valériane Bernard and Sonja Ohlsson, Brahma Kumaris

· Reweaving our Ecological Mat in the Pacific (Rev. James Bhagwan)

· Dave Bookless, Director of Theology at A Rocha International, IUCN member

· Alexandra Masako Goossens-Ishii, Soka Gakkai International (Buddhist network)

· Lindsey Fielder Cook & Sara Jolena Sequoia Wolcott, Quaker UN office & Sequoia Samanvaya

· Iyad Abu Moghli, Director of Faith for Earth, UNEP

Discussion Moderator

· Jessica Sweidan, IUCN Patron of Nature

Hosts

· Dr Grethel Aguilar, IUCN’s Acting Director General

· Kristen Walker-Painemilla, Chair of UCN CEESP

· Liza Zogib, Chair of IUCN CEESP – ReSpECC

For more information, contact: Liza Zogib, Chair of ReSpECC Specialist Group liza@diversearth.org