Citizens’ assemblies bring together people from all walks of life to discuss an important issue. Smaller citizens assemblies are sometimes called citizens’ juries.
Citizens’ assemblies have been used to bring citizen perspectives into national policy making – like the a UK-wide climate assembly convened by UK Parliament in 2019 and the Scottish Government’s climate assembly in 2020.
Since then, local councils have been using climate assemblies and juries to bring in perperpectives from their local communities to help shape their plans around climate change.
We have been gathering reports made by climate assemblies on CAPE to make them easier to find, and to help raise awareness of how climate assemblies have worked in practice.