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This week's debate follows a week where it emerged, via a certain Sue Gray, that Labour had plans to introduce citizens' assemblies only for the party to U-turn within 30 hours.

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Canadian governments at all levels could use climate assemblies to perform a range of functions, from providing advice on specific policy proposals to holding policymakers to account.

Canada’s ongoing and record-breaking wildfire season and the recent heat waves around the world have galvanized Western public attention to the clim

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Climate assemblies may just provide the breakthrough required to develop popular, just and sustainable climate and energy policies.

Over the last several years, citizens in Europe have been randomly selected to participate in specific policy debates. But to make an impact, selection-based participation needs to be more integrated into mainstream democratic politics.

As Glasgow prepares to greet the biggest number of world leaders the UK has ever hosted, we spoke to Scottish supermodel and climate activist Eunice Olumide and Nadine Mulgrew, one of 120 people who took part in this year's Climate Assemblies.

With a law that will define specific obligation for ministries and public bodies but also the participation of citizens and the scientific community in the formulation of actions for environmental protection, the government is seeking to tackle climate change. The law is along the lines of standards of other European countries in the drafting of the climate law, raising even higher the targets for the reduction of the emissions of the greenhouse gaseous pollutants, in relation to the current Na...