This project could be divided as 3 major parts:(1) To select the proper environmental issues (2) To construct a web site forum for these issues (3) To hold a environmental consensus conference. This is the second time to hold a environmental consensus conference in Taiwan. The purpose is to form a bottom up strategy for collecting opinions from the laypeople. For preparing the conference, to select proper issues and construct a web site forum is necessary for better warm-up and clear focus. At the beginning of this project, many issues are discussed, then, four of then were selected as the priorities on the web forum. After assessment and approval, the 1st issue concentrated more attentions from people who visited the web forum. Therefore, this issue titled “Do you agree to control the green house gases by enforcement for the compliance to the Kyoto Protocol?” was selected to be the issue of the consensus conference. This conference was held through 4 Sundays from Oct.16 to Nov.6. Seventeen laypeople attend the whole conference. After 4 days education and discussion, they finally made a decision report about this issue. Their main point is: 「For mitigating the green house effect, safeguarding the environmental ecology to sustainability, and prevent our country from suffering the possible economic sanctions. We emphasize to adopt the attitude of precaution and prevention to complying with the "Kyoto Protocol". Also, as much as possible to interior it’s content to the national law. We consider it is essential to regulate a new law typically for controlling the green house gases. This could set up our minds on this issue, formulate the basic legal mechanism, also to be a basic guideline that all the people may clearly to follow.」There are about 10 news reports related to this decision report. All are positive and affirmative. The consensus conference become a new model which not only to collect the information from laypeople but also a good reference for the government to make better decisions.

consensus conference, internet forum, deliberative democracy, bottom up strategy