World Wide Views on Climate Change UK

Whilst leaders at the recent United Nations Conference on Climate Change stressed the urgency in reaching a global agreement on climate change, ultimately very little was actually achieved. The final document recognises the scientific necessity of keeping global temperature rises to no more than 2°C, but contains no tangible commitments to reduce emissions in achieving [...]

The World Wide Views on Climate Change global conference and Kettering’s involvement is continuing to give the public a voice in the build up to the decisions being made at the COP15 summit. Channel 4 News brought four citizens of Kettering together with four from Rio who attended the WWViews global conference to debate who [...]

Please download the WWViews International Policy Report Here
Results from the first-ever global citizens’ consultation on climate change are clear: Citizens from all parts of the world mandate their politicians to take fast and strong action at COP15.
The results are remarkably consistent across national income groups and geographical regions. The participating citizens voted on alternative answers [...]

On the 25th October Involve ran a deliberative process about climate change with 15 members of the UK Youth Climate Coalition. The exercise examined the visions for the future of this selection of the UK’s youth representatives going to the COP15 summit in Copenhagen.
The group were asked what they would like the world to [...]

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 [...]

The second report from the citizen’s deliberation on climate change has now been published. This report analyses the views of informed citizens in Kettering and in 43 other towns on 6 continents.

Channel 4 News reports on Kettering’s climate change verdict – how the people of Kettering were asked how green they are ahead of the Copenhagen conference.
To read more of the high profile piece please click here.
World Wide Views reported on Channel 4 News here:

Will Day, Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission endorses theWWViews on Climate Change process:

Numbers are only part of the story -
Things have been very busy at the Involve offices since the World Wide Views Event last week. We are working on the official event report, which should be ready shortly. We’ve been busy poring over the voting results from the UK event and it makes for fascinating reading. [...]

The official website of COP15, the UN climate change conference in December, has reported the findings from the WWV process.

The global results are now available. At first reading they appear to broadly support the views of citizens in Kettering. We’ll bring you more in-depth analysis over the coming days.

The results are in for the emission reduction rates!
72% say that short term emission reduction by developed countries should be between 25 and 40%. In keeping with this, participants felt that developing and lower income countries should only reduce their emissions based on what they emit.
I wonder with this is consistent with the world view?!?

Hello from Kettering!

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Message of support from Joan Ruddock MP, Department of Energy and Climate Change:

“We face our biggest challenge yet as the world gathers in Copenhagen in December to strike a make or break deal for our climate.
“Global action needs to be backed by local action. Every single one of us must start making the changes necessary [...]