Environment

Toronto, Ontario, 25 May 2010 (CBNS) — About fifty participants gathered in Toronto in mid April to explore Climate Change and Environmental Decline as a Moral Issue. The two-day retreat was organized by the University of Calgary faculty of social work and a group of Canadian faith-based, development and environment NGOs.

Click here to read the statement.Ottawa, Ontario, 24 November 2009 (CBNS) — As governments prepare for the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP-15) in December, Canadian Baha’is are involved in a number of activities aimed at addressing climate change and environmental sustainability.

Ottawa, Ontario, 15 October 2009 (CBNS) — During the first weekend of September, children in Ottawa’s Vanier neighbourhood attended the last in a series of half-day children’s camps where they learned how to apply the teachings of the Baha'i Faith in developing environmentally sustainable behaviour.

Alicia Cundall, 19, one of the Baha'i representatives at the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, read the statement prepared by the youth caucus for the plenary session of governments on 14 May. Toronto, Ontario, 21 May 2009 (CBNS) — 19-year-old Canadian, Alicia Cundall, was one of the youngest representatives from a nongovernmental organization to attend this year's U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-17) as a member of the youth caucus, one of the major groups of the civil society accredited to participate at the CSD. Alicia delivered a closing statement by the youth caucus to the plenary session of governments on 14 May.

Toronto, Ontario, 29 January 2009 (CBNS) — Bahá'í communities across Canada are beginning to adopt greener, more sustainable practices in response to a “call for action” from the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada.