World Wide Views on Climate Change UK

After the World Wide Views on Climate Change global Conference, Philip Hollobone MP for Kettering was interested to learn more about the views of his constituency on this important issue. A great, and forward thinking step towards the voices of the public being listened to by decision makers.

Kettering citizen Ray Maylin travelled down to London [...]

Finally, here are today’s results:

It’s been a long, productive, successful day!

In the richness of the discussion and the figures from the voting in Kettering, three things stand out for me.
Firstly, the majority of people in the room want urgent action on climate change, and they are expecting our leaders to make a firm deal in Copenhagen at Christmas.
But they don’t want a deal at [...]

We’ve been posting the results from the citizens votes all afternoon and have now also started comparing them to the results that have come in from timezones east of Kettering; China, Australia and Tokyo for example.
But the bald numbers hide the huge richness of debate that has gone on at the 15 tables here in [...]

Here are the results of the fourth thematic session, “The Economy of Technology and Adaptation.”

These are complex questions and opinions are varied. Only 45% think there should be no regulation of fossil fuels prices, while 79% think a global financial system should be installed to aid developing countries. You can compare these results [...]

Kettering citizens are grappling with whether the reduction target for emissions should be in the short term for both developing and developed countries.
Punishment for missing targets was another complex issue discussed. Over half of participants say that countries exceeding the agreed emissions targets should be punished and forced to pay a penalty equal to any [...]

We just had a link up via Skype with World Wide Views Sweden, who were about to start their third round of questions. We will latter pass the baton to the USA.
In the meantime, here’s the results to the first two rounds of questions:
Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the slides.
At the end of the [...]

We’ve just finished a live link up via Skype between the participants of the WWViews process in Australia and in UK. What a buzz. It really brings home the global nature of the process.
Wandering round the hall during the first table discussions also emphasised for me the local nature of the issues. We’ve got [...]

The first results of the World Wide Views global consultation can be checked and compared with other countries’ results here.
We will be posting the results of World Wide Views UK here as they come up, and archiving them in our Results page.

As always in the UK, thoughts are rarely far from what the weather is doing. Here in Kettering it is slightly grey, cloudy day. However, some longer term thinking about the weather soon to happen as 100 Kettering citizens are starting to converge on the local Conference Centre. They will be here today to learn [...]

by Simon Burall, Director of Involve
Over the past fortnight I have been asked countless times Why Kettering? Why are you going to Kettering to ask the public to   spend a whole Saturday talking about climate change?
One of the implications behind these questions is that the public cannot possibly be expected to know [...]

This weekend, residents of Kettering will participate in the World Wide Views global consultation exercise.
Kettering Borough Council has been very supportive of this initiative coordinated by public participation specialists Involve.
On their web site, Kettering Borough Council Portfolio Holder for the Environment, Cllr Cedwien Brown, says:
“Kettering people are proud of their environmental track record and we’re [...]

This Saturday, September 26, 2009, World Wide Views on Climate Change UK will offer a possibility to discuss and share citizens’ positions on key issues in preparation for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen.
The meeting in Kettering is only one of 45 meetings in 38 countries (please see our interactive map here) [...]

The voices of policy makers, elected officials, lobbyists and experts will be heard at the Climate Change negotiations in Copenhagen in December. What is missing in all this noise are the voices of citizens around the world. Yet engaging citizens globally will be critical to getting decisions which will then be implemented in the end.

“We are counting down to the most important meeting of our lives.
“This December, world leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to forge a global climate deal. The impacts of climate change are mounting every day, but we still have time to put ourselves on the path to a better world.
“The TckTckTCk campaign is building the world’s [...]