Description
Climate change is gaining increasing traction on the political agenda. Meaningful public engagement, at all levels of governance, is widely considered to be essential to help address the crisis. Traditional institutions of representative democracy, are seen as inadequate as they struggle to consider long-term goals due to electoral incentives and the need to respond to current public opinion and media. As a result, we are seeing a wave of citizens’ assemblies, at all levels of governance, from the global to the local, used to engage representative samples of the public in informed climate change deliberation. This roundtable assesses the extent that climate assemblies can help society address the global climate, considers their transferability across different levels of governance, and highlights the barriers they face. A range of speakers, who have researched climate assemblies from the city, local, regional, sub-national, national and global level will provide key lessons.
