First-time visitors

Welcome to the Climate CoLab#

The Climate CoLab is a global platform that allows people to work together in developing proposals for what to do about global climate change.

What you can do#

There are three ways you can contribute in the CoLab:

• Vote for proposals
• Join the debates
• Create new proposals

Vote for and comment on proposals#

One of the things you can quickly do is to vote for the proposal you think is best.

The current proposals are summarized on the Proposals page.

To compare different proposals, look at the tabs that describe various aspects of the proposals such as Actions, Impacts, and Discussion.

To vote for a proposal, you'll first need to register (see box at the upper right corner of the screen).

Then go to the Proposals page and click on the check mark for the proposal of your choice.

If you later see a proposal you like better, you can change your vote.

You can also add a comment on any proposal on the "Discussion" tab.

For more details, see How to view and vote for proposals.

Join the Debates#

You can engage with other CoLab members on issues that are relevant to climate change on the Debates page.

Debates include summaries (on the left side of the page), maintained by CoLab moderators, to depict concisely key issues, positions, and arguments.

For each post in the Debate summary, you can also add a comment in the unstructured Discussion (on the right side of the page).

For more details, see How to view and participate in debates.

Create new proposals#

You can also create new proposals of your own and publish them for others to see and vote on.

To create a new proposal, you'll need to register and then click the "Create a new proposal" button here.

You can also use an existing proposal as the basis for a new one by going to that proposal and clicking "Create a new proposal based on this one."

You can then specify the actions for your proposal by moving the sliders that appear in the Actions tab.

Whenever you want, you can click the "Run model" button at the bottom of the page and see the Impacts of your Actions.

To publish your proposals for others to vote on, click the "Publish proposal" link on the Administration tab for the proposal.

For more details, see How to create new proposals.

Philosophy#

The Climate CoLab community welcomes people with all points of view about global climate change. Since this topic is complex and controversial, however, the community expects all participants to

* respect scientific evidence and logical argument * treat each other with respect and courtesy.

For more details, see Community philosophy and policies.

More information#

For more things you can do as part of this community, see How can you help?

For more information about the Climate CoLab, in general, see About the Climate CoLab.