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Tips for 2010 contest


Introduction#

This page outlines some of the key elements we believe are important in proposals and provides advice that may be helpful to teams.

Our overall goal has been that people should be able to put together a proposal primarily using the materials on the site.

Key element: Explaining feasibility of proposed actions#

The one area where it might be useful for teams to undertake outside research or bring in outside knowledge (as well as doing creative thinking) is *explaining in the Description tab why the actions you chose (in the Actions/Impacts tab) are feasible .

In particular, it would be useful to show you envision emission reductions will be achieved, through such mechanisms as:

To assess the feasibility of your proposal, it might be worth looking closely at the mitigation cost graphs in the Impacts tab, and the explanatory material about them included on this page on the site: EMF 22 response surfaces

Desirability, financial transfers, artistic representations#

You should be able to complete the other areas of the Description tab without additional research (but you will want to do creative thinking!)

The most important other elements in the Description tab are:

If you have time, you might also want to add to the Description tab an artistic representation of what the future could be like under your proposal.

If you want to link to one of IDEO's "Living Climate Change" videos listed on the Artistic representations of possible future worlds page, that would be a nice plus.

Don't forget the basics!#

Finally, just a reminder that in addition to the Description tab, you will want to make sure that you have completed:

Reminder about judging criteria#

A key criterion the judges will be looking at is feasibility, that is whether the proposals could actually be implemented. In addition, they will be looking for novelty and presentation quality.

The Climate CoLab project staff cannot speak for the judges, but we assume that given that novelty is a a key criterion, innovative thinking will be valued more highly than encyclopedic knowledge.