Abstract
This paper discusses the present situation and the progress of the citizen participation in global warming prevention at local governments, based on a survey conducted in Kyoto prefecture. The main findings concerning the present situation of citizen participation are as follows: 1) Citizen participation has been considerably executed in the local governments which set to work on global warming prevention i.e., making the ordinance, the plan, organizing the implementation, executing the prevention concerning PR and inseminations. 2) Citizen participation has not reached at the level of evaluation of prevention. Also, the local governments which accepted citizen participation in this process implemented more advanced global warming prevention than those local governments without such a citizen participation.
