Community involvement

World Wide Views on Climate Change

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) will take place in Copenhagen in December 2009.

In preparation for this conference the Danish government, in cooperation with the Danish Board of Technology, has invited organisations in more than 50 countries to arrange workshops on September 26, 2009. In New Zealand 100 ‘ordinary’ citizens will be invited to participate in a workshop, and to provide feedback to the decision-makers that will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

The main objective is to give a broad sample of citizens from across the world the opportunity to influence the COP15 negotiations and thereby the future of global climate policy. The overarching purpose is to demonstrate that political decision-making processes on a global scale will benefit when ‘ordinary’ citizens participate. The World Wide Views workshops will send vital messages about climate policy from citizens to decision-makers. It will create awareness about the importance of climate policy globally, nationally, locally and individually. And it will set a path-breaking precedent by demonstrating that ordinary people merit, and can have a voice within global political processes.

In New Zealand the Worldwide Views workshop is being facilitated by Sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand (SANZ). The 100 ‘ordinary’ citizens that will meet in Auckland will be a representative sample of citizens.. drawn from a panel recruited from omnibus surveys that have been carried out by Research New Zealand in the last 12 months.

The work is being carried out on a pro bono basis.

For further information about World Wide Views, please consult the following web-sites:

http://www.wwviews.org/node/4

http://www.phase2.org/

http://www.tekno.dk/subpage.php3?article=1497&toppic=kategori11&language=uk&category=11

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