Friday 4 April, ECOSOC NGO Forum

The ECOSOC NGO Forum took place in the ECOSOC Chambers, United Nations Headquarters in New York, from 3-6 PM on April 4, 2008.

The forum serves as a preparatory event for the 2008 High-Level Segment of ECOSOC, and is an excellent platform for organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social council to share their best practices and success stories.

Read more about Best Practices that were presented during the forum, and see the geographical presentation of the same projects on our intercactive Best Practices Map!

More on the NGO Section web site

United Nations Climate Change Conference

Calling the fight against global warming "the moral challenge of our generation," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the delegates at the 12 December opening of the High-Level segment of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali. Read more.

Al Gore's Nobel Lecture: "We must act"

For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change, the Nobel Peace Prize 2007 was awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Today in Oslo Al Gore has delivered his Nobel Lecture.

United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 13th United Nations Climate Change Conference has completed its fourth day in Bali, Indonesia, and will run through 14 December. Read more.

Coral Garden Project in the Dominican Republic

The DR Coral Garden Project is a dynamic public-private initiative to conserve and restore threatened Caribbean coral reefs and associated habitats in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) at Punta Cana, Bayahibe, Samana and Sosua Bay in the Dominican Republic. This project is being implemented by Counterpart International (CPI) and FUNGLODE/GFDD in association with a series of national stakeholders: NGO's, divers' and fishermen's associations, hotel and tourism companies and associations, as well as representatives from the Ministries of Environment and Tourism. Read more.