World Wide Views on Global Warming
In progress from 01-01-2008 to 01-01-2010
The Danish Board of Technology and the Danish Cultural Institute are jointly organizing a global project, in which citizens world wide will be asked about their views on global warming and climate policy.
The main objective of ’World Wide Views on Global Warming’ is to give citizens around the world the possibility to contribute with their views on some of the key issues addressed at the United Nations climate summit COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, in order to influence the negotiations and the future of global climate policy. The overarching purpose is to demonstrate that political decision-making processes on a global scale benefit when everyday people participate.
Around 100 citizens from each of the participating countries will meet in their own countries to engage in a structured dialogue aimed at answering an identical set of question. The dialogue will be informed by well-balanced information material. Scientific experts, political decision makers and a diverse range of other stakeholders will be invited to contribute to the formulation of both the questions and the information material.
The face-to-face citizens consultations, the WWViews, will be carried out in the participating countries almost simultaneously and a few months before the COP15, which is taking place from 30 November to 11 December 2009. The results will be gathered and presented continuously for comparison on a public homepage as the results from the different WWViews are reported.
The questions asked at the WWViews will make statistical comparison of the answers in different countries possible, but citizens will also be given the opportunity to phrase their own recommendations for national and international political decision makers.
The project is organized by the newly established WWViews Alliance, which embraces different kinds of partners who will actively support the project. Some can do so by undertaking national WWViews, others by contributing to media work, fundraising, communicating the results in policy-making arenas, being ambassadors for the project, or simply write support letters.
The project method is unique and is developed on the basis of the experience gained by The Danish Board of Technology and other members of the WWViews Alliance from a series of different methods engaging citizens in political decision-making processes. It will further developed in 2008 and in 2009 the questions and the information material to the citizens will be formulated and finally The WWViews will be carried out world wide up to the COP15.
The Danish Board of Technology will manage the project within the framework of the WWViews Alliance, established and coordinated by The Danish Board of Technology and The Danish Cultural Institute.
Project agenda:
Formal meeting with Members of the Belgian Delegation to COP 15
March 24th-25th, 2009 Expertsworkhop Kopenhagen
May, 2009: introductory materials for citizens
June, 2009: recruitment of 100 citizens
September 26th, 2009 Citizens Convention ‘post-Kyoto’ in Flemish Parliament
Valorisation of results
For additional information, please go to the international project website: www.wwviews.org
