Midday NGO Workshops

60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference
United Nations, New York
5-7 September 2007
Climate Change: How It Impacts US All

The Midday Workshops are an integral part of the 60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference, Climate Change: How It Impacts Us All. The workshops take place from 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM each day and welcome broad audience participation.

These workshops underscore the theme of the conference, enhance the content of roundtable topics, raise supplementary issues, share solutions and best practices, and foster partnerships across all sectors of civil society. The topics covered in these Midday Workshops include the scientific evidence, cultural and traditional knowledge, water security and climate change, best land use practices, economics and policies of energy and climate change, streamlining the system, sustainable development and the responsibility to protect, and health and education.

Over thirty student intern rapporteurs from colleges and universities in the greater New York/New Jersey area will summarise the workshop proceedings for the final conference report. These students have formed a poster presentation sub-committee.

The topics covered in these workshops are:

Wednesday, 5 September 2007

• Turning Around Climate Change: Global-Local Strategic Actions
• Exploring Organic Solutions to Climate Change and Food Security
• Sustainable Energy Solutions: Responding to the Climate Change Challenge with Community-Based Projects
• The Wild Cards in Climate Change: Weather Warfare, Geo-engineering and ENMOD
• Crisis on Water: New Strategies Related to Climate Change
• UN Partnership with Civil Society on Climate Change
• Water Security and Climate Change
• Caring After the Storm: The Impact of Climate Change on Children in Areas Where Rising Waters Create Despair and Destruction
• Climate Change and the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection: Challenges for Holistic Health and Education
• Climate Change and Individual Responsibility: The Franciscan Way
• The Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change: Practical Implications
• Partnerships to Mobilise Community Health and Mental Health Resources for Recovery, Resilience and Risk Reduction of Climate-Related Disasters: What Multi-Stakeholders and NGOs Can Do

Thursday, 6 September 2007

• Faith Responses to Climate Change
• Youth, Education, and Climate Change
• Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples
• The Impact of Climate Change on Migrants: Current Issues and Future Challenges
• Human Rights and Good Practices in the Face of Climate Change
• Every Voice Counts: Sustain the Abundance
• Solution to the Challenge of Climate Change: Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace
• New Visions and Good Practices to Address the Impacts of Climate Change in Conflicts for Water and Water Security
• Spiritual Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability
• Strategies to Facilitate Biosphere Management and Lifestyle Change: Measures to Protect the Environment and Prevent Drastic Squeal of Current and Future Climate Changes
• Climate Crisis – Fighting to Survive
• The Climate Change Crisis: Seeing Wider; Digging Deeper

Friday, 7 September 2007

• Culture of Peace – Education – the Arts
• Small Steps – Big Effect: What Families and Children Can Do to Help Reverse Global Warming
• Preventing and Overcoming Conflicts: The Effects of Climate Change and the Role of the Culture of Peace
• Biodiversity and Climate Change: Minimising Extinction
• The Ethical and Spiritual Response to Climate Change
• The Trauma of Climate: The Climate of Trauma
• The Role of Olympians and the Private Sector in Designing Carbon-Neutral Buildings
• Lessons That the Climate Change Effort Can Learn From the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer
• An Assessment of the Adaptability of Different Economic Stages and a Brief Introduction to Chinese Activities

PLEASE NOTE: Speakers and room assignments may change- please check the screens outside conference rooms for up-to-date information also listen for workshop announcement during the Conference.

Co-Chairs, Midday Workshop Committee
Dr. Charles G. Hitchcock
Rev. Brian K. Muzás
Dr. Mary E. Norton