Why we need to leapfrog to Climate Change 2.0

Climate Change 2.0 may sound a bit premature, and rightly so. We haven't even gotten the basics of climate change action yet. The world on average is maybe at CC 0.5 (if I may create that unit of measurement), with the Europeans having the hard-earned privilege of hovering around CC 0.9. 


So what on Earth is CC 2.0. Here's the idea, and it's just an idea... by no means reality yet... but worth aspiring towards:
+ The world needs concerted action on climate change. 
+ While the politicians need to get their acts together at Mexico and beyond, these are but necessary but woefully insufficient conditions.
+ The citizens of the world need to embrace any climate change policies developed by governments worldwide. 
+ What better way to give impetus to this embracement than to enable global citizens to feed into the policies in the first place... or in consultant-speak, leveraging ownership to create stakeholder support.
+ What better way to democratise policy-development than to use the power of web 2.0 concepts and technologies - using the collaborative power of the web to create policies of the people, by the people, for the people. 


So there it is, Climate Change 2.0: Driving towards collective climate change action by enabling the masses via web 2.0 technologies. 


But even this will fall short of the finish line. Global citizens need to ACT on the policies that they may now have embraced. Their fundamental behaviours and lifestyles must change (e.g., drive fuel-efficient cars, use fluorescent bulbs, consume less/recycle more... the list is endless).


Easier said than done! But, done easier when said so oneself?


More about Climate Change 2.0 at http://www.climate-change-two.net/stern-review/
More on web 2.0:
- Clay Shirky: http://www.shirky.com/
- Jonathan Greenblatt: http://www.worldchanging.com/bios/jonathan.html