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DecisionMakr At Doha: Can A New Smartphone App Hold Leaders More Accountable?

DecisionMakr At Doha: Can A New Smartphone App Hold Leaders More Accountable?

November 27, 2012
by Angel Hsu
in UNFCCC – Doha

This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post and The Metric, the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy’s blog.

Expectations for the global climate negotiations taking place over the next two weeks in Doha, Qatar, are dismally low, and major political transitions in China and the United States – the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases – further temper hope for any kind of game-changing proposal. So what are the more than 7,000 civil society members and 1,500 journalists(myself included) in attendance going to do to make their opinions count and to hold their governments accountable for accomplishing something in Doha?

Well, there’s an app for that, and it’s called DecisionMakr.

Having attended many of these negotiations in the past, I…

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