This year’s conference is the 60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference at the United Nations. Over 2,000 participants from around the world – NGO representatives and civil society partners – are expected to gather once again at UN Headquarters for this premier NGO event September 5-7, 2007. The theme this year is Climate Change: How It Impacts Us All. Keynote addresses, plenary sessions, roundtables and midday workshops promise to shed light on this global crisis through the lens of how climate change impacts on such issues as our water security, and indigenous peoples and cultures. Science and the economics and politics of energy and climate change have also a place on the busy conference agenda. For the full program, see www.unngodpiconference.org/

For the fourth year in a row the conference plenary sessions will be webcast live. Webcast makes it possible for people around the world who are unable to be in New York to follow much of the proceedings on their own computer. Please check the program first to ascertain the correct time at which the plenary session begins, then log on at www.unngodpiconference.org/ and click on “Webcast.” The webcast will also be archived and can be viewed at a later date/time.

Four RSCJ from four continents – Asia, Australia, Latin America and North America – will come to New York for a full week of learning, exchange and dialogue with other NGO participants, among whom a group of 11 IBVMs and their co-workers. Together with Caritas Internationalis, Congregations of St. Joseph, Dominican Leadership Conference, Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Presbyterian United Nations Office, the Society of the Sacred Heart will present a midday workshop on sustainable development and the responsibility to protect entitled Every Voice Counts: Sustain the Abundance.