In corporation with Climate Consortium Denmark, World Wide Views on Global Warming and the Danish Board of Technology holds a COP15 Side Event about World Wide Views on Global Warming

Thursday December 10th 3.00 - 4.30 pm

at the Climate Consortium Denmark's area at Bella Center, Copenhagen.


World Wide Views on Global Warming offers unique and detailed insight into ordinary people's views on climate change and how to make global policies to deal with it. Citizens in 38 countries deliberated on core issues at stake at COP15, and their demands are clear: They want an ambitious deal that ensures a temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius.

 
Meet citizens, policy-makers and stakeholders for a debate about the World Wide Views results and the role of citizens' participation in global policy-making.


Programme:


3.00 - 3.10 pm: Opening speech by Mr. Lars Klüver, Director of The Danish Board of Technology

 
3.10 - 3.25 pm: Documentary on World Wide Views on Global Warming


3.25 - 3.45 pm: The main results of the project, by Mr. Bjørn Bedsted, Project Manager at The Danish Board of Technology and coordinator of World Wide Views


3.45 - 4.30 pm: Panel debate

 
Members of the panel:

    * Ms. Le Giang Lam, World Wide Views Participant in Vietnam
    * Ms. Merit Al-Sayed, World Wide Views Participant in Egypt
    * Ms. Andrea Hvattum, World Wide Views Participant in Norway
    * Ms. Ulla Tørnæs, Danish Minister for Development Cooperation
    * Ms. Veerle Vandeweerd, Director of the UNDP Environment and Energy Group
    * Mr. Mohammed Ali or Mr. Tesfaye W/Yes, members of the Ethiopian delegation
    * Mr. Nitin Desai, Member of the Indian Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change and former Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the UN
    * Mr. Bo Kjellén, Chief Climate Negotiator for Sweden at Kyoto and advisor for the Swedish EU Presidency at the COP15 negotiations
    * Mr. Bill McKibben, Co-founder and Director of the climate movement 350.org

 
In order to attend the Side Event you must be accredited to the COP15 and in possession of a conference badge in order to access the conference venue.
 

For more information, please contact Project Manager Marie Louise Jørgensen – email: mlj@tekno.dk and phone number +45 33 45 53 93.