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Final
Declaration1
Thursday, 6 September 9/24/2007
Declaration Process
Climate Change Threats – An NGO Framework for Action
The Preparatory Committee of the 60th
NGO/DPI Conference (September 5-7, 2007) invites all
participants to concur by consensus on September 7th
with the
Declaration on the reverse of this sheet.
Substantive suggestions for improvement are also invited;
but they must be received by 6pm on September
6th
and should
foster a consensus. Recommendation forms should be placed
into the boxes in Conference Rooms 1 and 4, or given to the
Drafting Committee members, Mr. Larry Roeder, Dr. William
Gellermann and Ms. Moki Kokoris, who will often be in the UN
Cafeteria near the windows overlooking the East River.
Recommended suggestions MUST BE 25 words or less.
The Drafting Committee’s work is supervised by a Senior
Review Committee mad e up of Sister Joan Kirby
(outgoing Chairperson of the NGO/DPI Executive Committee),
Jeffery Huffines (incoming Chair of the NGO/DPI Executive
Committee), and Richard Jordan (Chair of the 60th
NGO/DPI Conference)
Members of the
NGO/DPI and ECOSOC NGO communities deal with a spectrum of
issues that might not
normally involve collaboration; but networking will be
crucial to dealing with Climate Change, especially as
it challenges all of us. The purpose of the Declaration is
to provide a framework for action and collaborative
networking, a tool to enable us to work together on the
threats of climate change, which is essential to serving all
of our particular mandates.
The Declaration
envisages that over the next 12 months, we will collaborate
and report our efforts to the Secretary-General, while
continuing our collaboration in coping with the threats. The
process by which this is to be done will be facilitated by
the NGO/DPI Executive Committee. The recommendations that
come out of the process do not need to have full consensus
support across the entire NGO community; but they do need to
be developed in the spirit of collaboration with and among
all NGOs.
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