DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION
Climate Assemblies
Partners :
All Luxembourg citizens
Location:
All over Luxembourg
Financing :
French Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Biodiversity
CELL's role and mission :
Organize and lead Citizens' Climate Assemblies to increase participation citizen in national climate and political action.
Project description :
Climate assemblies bring together citizens from all walks of life to discuss important issues. Although climate assemblies focus specifically on environmental issues, there is more at stake: climate assemblies are also laboratories where different models of participatory democracy can be tested. The aim: to bring about a profound transformation of our traditional "top-down" democratic system and build the opposite "bottom-up" model.