World Wide Views on Biodiversity International Citizen Consultation

Sunday, February 17, 2013
Room 202 (Hynes Convention Center)
Gretchen Gano , Amherst College, Amherst, MA
In September citizens in 25 countries dug into issues of global loss of biodiversity and formulated lay recommendations on the issues. The Danish Board of Technology organized this event internationally and conveyed citizen recommendations to the United Nations COP11 meeting on biodiversity. A collaboration of universities, science museums, and non-partisan public policy organizations coordinated U.S. participation, broader public engagement activities across the U.S., and reports in Washington.