Understanding the Impact of the French Climate Citizens’ Convention: A Review of Existing Research

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‘Understanding the impact of the French Climate Citizens’ Convention: A review of existing research’ uses the KNOCA Impact Evaluation Framework to collate existing academic and grey literature on the Convention. Claire Mellier and Selma Tilikete provide a systematic summary of existing research, showing the relatively limited attention that the analysis of impact has had in the extensive literature on the Convention. Those studies that have considered impact tend to focus on certain types, for example, on policy and legislation, on assembly members, and on the wider public and media. Other critical areas of impact have been overlooked.

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This study was originally commissioned by the European Climate Foundation to understand the longerterm impacts of the French Citizens’ Convention for the Climate using the recently revised KNOCA Impact Evaluation Framework. It is different from other KNOCA Briefings, but we decided it was important to publish in this format so that it has wider readership. The findings are relevant to anyone interested in the impacts of climate assemblies, in particular the French Convention which remains a subject of intense contention.

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