About WWViews

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World Wide Views on Global Warming is a global public consultation project initiated by the Danish government. It aims to empower regular citizens to give their preferences for policy and action on climate change.

There are 39 participating countries, with 44 partners, who will be linked up on the day via the internet to tally up ordinary people’s opinions using in a voting process. This is the first-ever global citizen engagement and the only form of direct accountability to the public for the crucial decisions being taken in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009. Nations represented in World Wide Views include all the major players in climate change politics and many of the world’s most populous nations.

In December 2009, Australia will join world leaders in Copenhagen at the biggest international summit on climate change yet, twelve years after the Kyoto Protocol was adopted worldwide to make a first attempt at emission cuts. But now, the stakes are much higher. The decisions made by negotiators at this United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) will influence the everyday lives of people right across the world. That’s a pretty good reason for ordinary people to have a say!

The Australian event is being hosted by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and managed by Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF).

World Wide Views events are happening in:

Australia

Sydney

Japan

Osaka

China

Shanghai

Taiwan

Taipei City

Indonesia

Makassar

Indonesia

Jakarta

Vietnam

Hanoi

Bangladesh

Dahka

India

New Delhi

India

Bangalore

The Maldives

Mahe

Russia

St.Petersburg

Ethiopia

Addis Abeba

Finland

Helsinki

Uganda

Kampala

Austria

Vienna

Egypt

Cairo

Malawi

Lilongwe

Mozambique

Maputo

South Africa

Pretoria

Belgium

Brussels

Germany

Karlsruhe

Italy

Rome

Netherlands

Haag

Sweden

Stockholm

Switzerland

Bern

Denmark

Copenhagen

France

Paris

Norway

Oslo

Spain

Salamanca

United Kingdom

London

Cameroon

Bafoussam

Mali

Bamako

Brazil

Brasilia

Uruguay

Monteviedo

Bolivia

La Paz

Saint Lucia

Casties

Chile

Talca

USA (Georgia)

Atlanta

USA (Massachusetts)

Boston

Canada

Calgary

USA (Colorado)

Denver

USA (Arizona)

Tempe

USA (California)

Claremont

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