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Arthur Lyon DAHL of Geneva, Switzerland (http://yabaha.net/dahl) is President of the International Environment Forum (http://iefworld.org). He is a retired Deputy Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), where he was Deputy Director of the Oceans and Coastal Areas Programme, Coordinator of the UN System-wide Earthwatch and first Director of the Coral Reef Unit. He is a leading expert on sustainability indicators, and has been a consultant on indicators and assessment to the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, UNESCO and UNEP. He was Visiting Professor, University of Brighton, working on values-based indicators of education for sustainable development (http://www.esdinds.eu/), and for 10 years has taught advanced studies courses in sustainable development and environmental diplomacy at the University of Geneva and other universities. He represented the Baha'i International Community at the Stockholm Conference on Human Environment (1972), the ARC/UNDP Celebration of the Faith Commitments for a Living Planet (Windsor, 2009), and the UN Climate Change Conferences in Copenhagen (COP15, 2009) and Paris (COP21, 2015). He was in the Secretariat of the Rio Earth Summit (1992) to help draft Agenda 21; and participated in the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg 2002) and the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, 2012). He co-coordinated the UNEP Major Groups and Stakeholders Advisory Group on International Environmental Governance (http://agieg.iefworld.org) leading up to Rio+20. A specialist on small islands and coral reefs (AB, Biological Sciences, Stanford University; PhD, Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara), he spent many years in the South Pacific as Regional Ecological Advisor with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (http://www.spc.int) in New Caledonia, and organized the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (http://www.sprep.org). He is on the governing board of ebbf - Ethical Business Building the Future (http://ebbf.org). He has published many scientific papers and books including: "Unless and Until: A Baha'i Focus on the Environment" and "The Eco Principle: Ecology and Economics in Symbiosis".