{"nodes":[{"node":{"nid":"77601","title":"Democratizing Climate Governance: An Inconvenient Necessity?","campus":"Online event, Washington, D.C.","locations":"ASU Barrett \u0026amp; O\u0026#039;Connor Washington Center","college_unit":"Consortium for Science, Policy \u0026amp; Outcomes","department":"","field_cost_value":"Free","event_price_level":"Free","asu_events_price_desc":"Free","body_summary":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis conversation revisits the original impetus behind large-scale citizen participation ef\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","full_body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis conversation revisits the original impetus behind large-scale citizen participation efforts such as the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wwviews.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWorld Wide Views\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E (WWViews) consultations: to close the democratic gap in global climate negotiations. These efforts were grounded in a theory of change that prioritized democratic legitimacy and durable collective solutions, even at the expense of speed.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis placed WWViews, which argued that \u201cscience informs us, it doesn\u2019t tell us what to do,\u201d at odds with the growing impatience and frustrations brewing among the activist climate science community. It prompted a cautionary article by Nico Stehr in 2015, \u201c\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/525449a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDemocracy is not an inconvenience\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn the years that followed, particularly in the wake of the Yellow Vest movement in France and the launch of the 2020 Citizens\u2019 Convention on Climate, climate activists and experts increasingly turned to citizen assemblies and deliberative democracy as a corrective to the failures of representative democracy. These approaches were embraced not only for their legitimacy, but also with the expectation that they could help accelerate climate action. Movements such as \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rebellion.global\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EExtinction Rebellion\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E elevated citizen assemblies into one of their core demands, further embedding deliberative processes into the climate governance discourse.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHowever, after an initial period of momentum and experimentation, citizen assemblies have struggled to resolve the underlying tension between speed and legitimacy. Their influence appears to be receding as attention shifts toward other political and economic priorities, raising renewed questions about the role and limits of democratized approaches in addressing urgent, large-scale climate challenges.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA more \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatesnotes.com\/home\/home-page-topic\/reader\/three-tough-truths-about-climate\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Erecent reframing\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E comes from Bill Gates, who argues that climate strategy should be evaluated less by temperature targets and more by human welfare, including health, prosperity, and resilience. 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Farooque will reflect on the U.S. trajectory, including CSPO\u2019s role in coordinating the U.S. component of WWViews and building a 15-year portfolio of participatory initiatives across climate resilience, solar geoengineering, carbon dioxide removal, spent nuclear fuel siting, fusion energy, and clean energy demonstrations. His perspective situates democratization within broader questions of public value, institutional design, and science-policy integration.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EModerator:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EK.L. Akerlof\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University. Akerlof\u2019s research focuses on the intersection of governance, science, and risk communication. 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