The Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies (KNOCA) aims to improve the commissioning, design, implementation and impact of climate assemblies, using evidence, knowledge exchange and dialogue. We are an active community of policy makers, practitioners, activists, researchers and other actors with experience and interest in climate assemblies who co-create activities and knowledge.
Towards Permanent Climate Citizens' Assemblies: Learning from the Early Adopters
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A wave of citizens’ assemblies on the climate at local, regional, national and even transnational level has emerged across Europe and beyond over the past five years. They carry the promise of finding better approaches to solving the climate and ecological crisis, while promoting a more inclusive and democratic way of doing politics.
However, these are typically one-off or ad-hoc processes. Is this sufficient to contribute effectively to both the climate and ecological crisis and the democratic crisis in the long run? For this reason, a growing number of practitioners, activists and researchers are advocating for permanent or institutionalized climate citizens’ assemblies.
In this briefing, we summarise the different arguments that are made in favour and against permanent assemblies. We then provide a brief sketch of three specific cases and draw out key insights and recommendations.
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