Gone are the times when world leaders met behind closed doors to decide our future. TheUN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, which starts next Monday the 7th, not only can it be followed live on the Internet at www.cop15.dk, but also, for the first time, citizens will be able to send messages to world leaders, ask questions, debate on the climate change and express their hopes for Copenhagen (COP15) through the conference’s own YouTube channel, as well as its Facebook page and Twitter channel.
“By using so many different communication platforms, we have created a conference onclimate change 2.0“says Klavs A. Holm, Ambassador for Public Diplomacy at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.” We want to engage the global audience in authentic dialogue and contribute to the growing global awareness of climate change, “he adds.
In addition, the Danish government has invited key opinion formers on climate change to participate in the blog.Climate Thinkers, where collaborators from all over the world will write, including Gro Harlem Brundtland, Jeffrey Sachs, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Yvo de Boer, … Users can also participate in the debate by leaving comments on the blog entries.
Working with data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the international scientific community, Google has managed to reflect climate change inGoogle Maps y Google Earth. In this way, Internet users can see models of greenhouse gas emissions by region and the expected consequences of climate change, as well as carry outtours Virtual commentaries on aspects such as mitigation and adaptation at www.google.com/cop15.
More information at www.youtube.com/cop15, www.facebook.com/cop15 and www.twitter.com/cop15
