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Over the last 20 years I have come to recognise the richness of citizen science and to understand the power that people’s voices can bring to the major environmental challenges of our time. I believe that citizen scientists should be seen as full members of the global evidence and knowledge community and move to centre stage in the way we deliver our international commitments. My own work on ctizen generated data on early detection of infectious diseases through to determining the true value of ecosystems in the agrifood systems of Africa has shown how the deep knowledge that people embedded in their environments can help solve complex problems. For climate change, we have millions of people taking part in citizen science who can be mobilised to lower their own personal carbon emissions, and accelerate our progress away from fossil fuels.
Project AURORA is one of the few programmes piloting and testing how this can be done. It has effectively shown us how to link the collection of citizen science data on personal carbon emissions, with behavioural change and investment decisions in renewable community energy schemes that divert income, that would have gone to the fossil fuel companies, back into our communities. The work with the Red Cross is particularly exciting as it illustrates how those profits can also be diverted back to those in our communities in greatest need. I want to see the Portuguese Red Cross pilot succeed and expand the idea across the planet.
So I support the development of a global citizen science programme on climate change, that can grow from successful small scale European pilots. Through citizen science we can reset the way we deliver our climate change goals with a genuine citizen driven programmes capable of supporting citizens to lower personal carbon emissions and delivering a cash benefit for our communities in both the global north and the global south.
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