World Wide Views on Global Warming

About WWViews

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:

Downloads and Links

• List of countries participating in World Wide Views on Global Warming (will go to global site)

• One-page summary of the project (pdf 386KB)