Climate agreement in first tweeted treaty
The outcome of today's Small Climate Summit in Amsterdam is a crowdsourced climate agreement. The treaty, consisting of 10 tweets with small solutions to the energy challenge was instantly shared with the world via twitter. Designers, behavioural experts and entrepreneurs developed an agreement of their own in collaboration with online followers. The experimental mini-summit organised by Dutch NGO Hivos achieved a remarkable outcome in little over three hours.
Read the first ever tweeted treaty
Read the best of the twitter conversation: ( #SCS | @seducetoreduce) Watch the recording of the livestreamIt couldn’t have been further away from the diplomatic stage in Durban. The Small Climate Summit was housed in a small building perched on top of a shopping centre in the heart of Amsterdam. Because international climate conferences have had disappointing outcomes since the Kyoto protocol, Hivos organised a summit of its own to serve as an inspiration. An alternative agreement was reached celebrating the power of small ideas.
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