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Collaboratorium Copenhagen Challenge Final Round winners

The proposals that received the most votes over September 20-December 11 were:
  1. 350 ppm or bust (40% of votes), created by Jason Jay, PhD student, MIT Sloan School of Management
  2. IEA 450 ppm scenario (31% of votes), created by International Energy Agency (entered by Rob Laubacher)
  3. (tie) Drew Jones TEDx proposal (7% of votes), created by Drew Jones, Climate Interactive and Business as Usual (7% of the vote), based on the IPCC's A1FI scenario.

For more details on the final round winners, see the Collboratorium Copenhagen Challenge White Paper.

Collaboratorium Copenhagen Challenge Preliminary Round winners

Three proposals received the most votes over September 20-November 15.

  1. IEA 450 ppm scenario (42% of votes), created by International Energy Agency (entered by Rob Laubacher)
  2. 350 ppm or bust (27% of votes), created by Jason Jay, PhD student, MIT Sloan School of Management
  3. Drew Jones TEDx proposal (12% of votes), created by Drew Jones, Climate Interactive

Voting will continue November 16-December 11, and the three proposals that receive the most votes over the entire contest will be the final round winners.

You can vote for proposals by going to the Proposals page.

If you entered a proposal before, and would like to revise it, you can go to your proposal and select "Create new proposal based on this."

To create a completely new proposal, go to the Proposals page and click on “Create new proposal.”

Collaboratorium Copenhagen challenge

The Collaboratorium has been created in the hope that if the collective intelligence of the whole world can be harnessed, it will lead to the development of better solutions to climate change that any group of experts could arrive at on their own.

The initial version of the Climate Collaboratorium gives everyone a chance to put forward their ideas about what the world should agree to at the UN climate talks scheduled in Copenhagen in December 2009. To learn more about the UN climate talks go to Background on Copenhagen.

The Copenhagen challenge is a contest that seeks to focus the efforts of the Collaboratorium community on the development of high quality proposals for what the negotiators should agree to at the meetings in December.

How the contest works

The contest will have two rounds:

Preliminary round, September 20 to November 15

  • The 3 proposals with the most votes as of 11:59 pm Eastern time on Sunday, November 15 will be named preliminary round winners.
  • The creators of preliminary round winning proposals can have their names and pictures posted on the Collaboratorium home page, and their status as preliminary round winners will be highlighted on their profiles (user profiles will be available soon). Any winners who prefer to remain anonymous may choose to do so.

Final round, November 16 to December 11

  • The top three proposals from the preliminary round will be noted as preliminary winners on those proposals' "Description" page
  • Proposal creators will be able to modify existing proposals and create new proposals, starting on November 16
  • The 3 proposals with the most votes at 11:59 pm Eastern time on Friday, December 11 will be named final round winners.
  • The creators of final round winning proposals will have their names and pictures posted on the Collaboratorium home page, and their status as final round winners will be highlighted on their profiles. Any winners who prefer to remain anonymous may choose to do so.