Learning Call on Sweden's Climate Assembly

During the spring of 2024, the FAIRTRANS research programme hosted Medborgarråd om Klimatet (MoK), Sweden’s first climate assembly and second national-level deliberative minipublic. The assembly’s remit was to deliberate and agree upon recommendations to decrease Swedish emissions in light of the Paris Agreement (with a focus on transportation). MoK had no political or administrative mandate but aimed to enrich and nuance the national discussion on climate policy through established and new media engagement . The design aimed to incorporate support for systems thinking, for example through the use of the ‘climate fresk’ game. The learning call will consider the design and outcomes of the assembly, in particular the lessons we can draw from its communications and systems thinking ambitions.

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We will be joined by Tim Daw, Associate Professor in Sustainability Science, the lead organiser of the Medborgarråd on Klimatet and Sofia Bernett, the Communications Lead, both based at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. Tim and Sofia will be providing the perspective of the organisers. Assembly Member Jenny Larsson will share her experience as a citizen participating in the assembly. Finally, Mattias Goldberg from 2030-sekretariatet will provide an outside perspective on the assembly as an key actor in the transport policy with no involvement in the assembly. Graham Smith, Chair of KNOCA, will host the Learning Call.

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For more background information, see the Medborgarråd om Klimatet website and the KNOCA summary of the assembly.

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