Abstract
The governance of climate change is experiencing a deliberative moment. Citizens’ assemblies on climate change are forums of deliberative democracy that bring together citizens representative of a country’s society to develop recommendations on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They are designed to offer solutions to the failure of public authorities to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and have been gaining popularity in Europe. This chapter identifies four different ways in which climate assemblies, as a novel, experimental, tool in environmental governance, have been conceptualized. While closely related to existing concepts and practices in environmental law, they are at the same time highly anomalous, and offer promises and challenges for environmental law and its scholarship.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A Research Agenda for Environmental Law |
| Editors | Chris Hilson, Josephine van Zeben |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2024 |