UK Students Define Climate Change Vision For The Future

British students are working to deliver their views on climate change direct to the government in time for the international climate conference in Copenhagen.

They are using online writing tools to create a shared vision of how governments should act to combat climate change.

Students from across Britain are being asked to co-write a shared vision of how to combat climate change for the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC). Students can contribute their ideas, mix and match their copy with that of others and vote on entries, to arrive at their final, democratically-produced text of a shared vision for a deal at Copenhagen.

Britain’s National Union of Students (NUS), in collaboration with DECC, encourage students to get actively involved and make their voices heard.

This online collaborative writing tool is used, as it constitutes a fast way for students from across Britain to work together. Students will agree on a statement of objectives (manifesto), by holding an online vote on the best and most useful ideas put forward.

This will be published at DECC on 5 December 2009. A copy of the manifesto will also be presented to the Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband, before his departure for the Copenhagen negotiations.

Collaborative writing tools are quite new, and provide an easy way for people to work together. Using online collaborative writing tools, people are able to:

• contribute ideas;

• write and edit text;

• rate text written by others;

• work together in real time, whatever their location;

• democratically agree a shared finished product.

Students: what are your views on climate change?
Climate change: what are your views?

Add your vision to the mix, and rate others’ ideas

Students from across Britain are being asked to co-write a shared vision of how to combat climate change for the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC).

If you’re a student, you can share your views and vote on the key ingredients of a global deal to limit climate change. Britain’s National Union of Students (NUS), with DECC, is asking you to get involved and make your voice heard.

Take part ahead of 5 December

An online collaborative writing tool is being used as it’s a fast way for students from across Britain to work together. Students will agree a statement of objectives (a manifesto), by holding an online vote on the best and most useful ideas put forward.

This will be published to DECC on 5 December. A copy of the manifesto will also be presented to the Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband, before he leaves for Copenhagen.

Collaborative writing: a tool for democracy

Collaborative writing tools are quite new, and provide an easy way for people to work together. Using online collaborative writing tools, people can:

• contribute ideas

• write and edit text

• rate text written by others

• work together in real time, whatever their location

• democratically agree a shared finished product

Mixed Ink is one such tool. Among other things it was used to co-write a people’s version of President Obama’s inaugural speech. Now students across the UK will use it to help DECC bring the views of British students to world leaders at Copenhagen.

* Act on Copenhagen (Mixed Ink page) Opens new window

Copenhagen: the world acts on climate change

World leaders will meet in Copenhagen from 7-18 December 2009 to agree a global plan of action on climate change. The UN climate change conference is called COP 15.

COP 15 aims to create a treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto protocol. To reduce the global effects of climate change, binding and achievable international targets must be agreed for a low-carbon future.

Further information

* Help Write NUS Student Manifesto

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