Empowerment and disempowerment in climate assemblies: the French citizens' convention on climate

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• dc.contributor.author Galván Labrador, Adrián
• dc.contributor.author Zografos, Christos
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-23T07:48:54Z
• dc.date.available 2024-02-23T07:48:54Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description Data de publicació electrònica: 6 de desembre del 2023
• dc.description.abstract Citizens' assemblies to address climate change have multiplied in recent years. Seen as a useful tool to provide solutions to the climate crisis, they have, however, struggled to impact public policy. Additionally, little is known about how citizens' proposals are diluted or rejected in climate assemblies. We explore this situation through a qualitative case study of the French Citizens' Convention on Climate. The French case is unique in that it involved the incorporation of assembly participants in the process of integrating assembly proposals into a new Law on Climate and Resilience. We use semi-structured interviews and analysis of secondary documentation to understand how citizens' views were finally excluded from draft legislation. Findings show remarkable citizen empowerment taking place during the Citizens' Convention, which nevertheless vanished during the joint elaboration of the law, allowing certain political and economic interests to impose their vision. We suggest that organisers of the process and social movements engaged in climate assemblies should be aware of such risks and try to control how decision-makers adopt citizen proposals for producing legislation in order to avoid exclusions and democracy deficits in democratic climate policy-making. We discuss and reflect on the potential and limits of deliberative and agonistic approaches to democracy and climate action.
• dc.description.sponsorship We would like to acknowledge support by the GRES research project (Contract number: CNS2022-136115) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union Next Generation/PRTR programme.
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• dc.identifier.citation Galván A, Zografos C. Empowerment and disempowerment in climate assemblies: the French citizens' convention on climate. Environ Policy Gov. 2023 Dec 6. DOI: 10.1002/eet.2093
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eet.2093
• dc.identifier.issn 1756-932X
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59239
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PE/CNS2022-136115
• dc.rights © 2023 The Authors. Environmental Policy and Governance published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Climate assemblies
• dc.subject.keyword Climate policy
• dc.subject.keyword Collaborative governance
• dc.subject.keyword Democracy
• dc.subject.keyword French Citizens' convention on climate
• dc.subject.keyword Participation
• dc.title Empowerment and disempowerment in climate assemblies: the French citizens' convention on climate
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