WWF have been working hard, collecting votes for Earth.  The final total for the UK Vote Earth petition was 26,796.  It was handed to Ed Miliband the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

They also created an Ice Bear in Trafalgar Square to collect a further 1,463 votes!

WWF teams across the world are sending their votes to be added to the global mandate for action on climate change.

India, Austria and Spain have been running their own online petitions to capture votes.  

WWF in Perth ran a Vote Earth event over the weekend to collect votes in person.  

WWF New Zealand enlisted thousands of children to make Earth Hour Lanterns as their Vote for Earth and South Africa asked people across the country to sign pilates balls and have their say!

We have also been sent almost 5,000 votes from PWC Australia who are strong supporter's of WWF and Earth Hour. 

Hello everyone,

If you're reading this now, you would already know about the Show Your Vote web platform.  However, you might not know exactly what this platform is, how it works, and how we are adding information to the platform over time. 

In this first post, I would like to take the opportunity to tell you what Show Your Vote is, and how it operates.

The purpose of Show Your Vote (SYV for short) is to help organize the world's show of support for the Copenhagen Climate Conference, the COP15.

There are two different ways in which we are organizing this information.  First, the platform itself allows any individual or organization anywhere in the world to show their support directly using the "Vote" tab.  Second, we are working with all the organizations and campaigns out there across the planet that are helping to show support for COP15.  This includes online campaigns, but also offline petitions, events, etc.  basically any way that an individual out there in the real world is showing their support.

To this end, it's important to understand that you might see dramatic jumps in the number of votes, as we add more votes coming from offline sources and other online campaigns.

Rest assured that these jumps in numbers are not spam; they are legitimate votes coming from other sources, again to provide a single point of aggregation.  We are working on exposing more of this information to you through the interface right now, so that you'll have a better understanding of exactly where the votes are coming from.

"Why aggregate all the votes in one place?" you may be asking.  The reason we're doing this is to provide a reference point for the delegates of the COP15.  There are so many different campaigns, both big and small, that there needs to be a place for unifying all of this information.

Additionally, some people may not be interested in joining a specific campaign to show their support, which is why the SYV platform allows an individual or organization to submit their support without a particular affiliation.

On this blog, we will be posting news about the vote counts, updates to the functionality of the platform, and other interest-based posts based on feedback from the global community.

Thanks and best regards,

Justin Baird