Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2115/42646

JaLCDOI : 10.14943/43262

KEYWORDS : participatory technology assessment;global warming;global policy making;World Wide Views;COP15

World Wide Views on Global Warming has been developed to establish a model for the future inclusion of the worlds' citizens in global policy making. It has been designed with the purpose of making it possible for potentially all nations on Earth to take part. World Wide Views on Global warming involved roughly 4,000 citizens in 38 countries in deliberations about the issues on climate change. They received the same information about climate change and were asked to give their views. The participating citizens voted on 12 multiple-choice questions and produced a large number of recommendations phrased in their own wordings. They did so on daylong meetings on September 26, 2009. Empirical observations related to effectiveness of this attempt were summarized together with discussions concerning the applicability and limitations of the proposed global-scale participatory technology assessment.