The Global Assembly is the first ever citizens’ assembly aiming to involve people from all over the world in proposing a possible response to climate change. This innovative process provides a novel infrastructure for global governance comprised entirely of citizens and strives to answer the question: “How can humanity address the climate and ecological crisis in a fair and effective way?”.
There are two parts to the Global Assembly:
- The Core Assembly is comprised of 100 people selected by a lottery process representing a snapshot of the global population. After convening virtually to learn and deliberate, the Core Assembly presented their proposals at the COP26 climate conference in November 2021.
- Simultaneously, Community Assemblies from around the world are held, scaling up beyond the members of the Core Assembly. The outputs of these diverse assemblies will form part of the Global Assembly report in March 2022.
Global Assembly members call for declaring ecocide a global crime by legislating international and national laws for enforcement. Alongside this declaration, assembly members also demand that nations meet the Paris Agreement. Assembly members suggested this can be achieved by implementing carbon taxes, improving energy efficiency, investing in clean energies as well as targeting overconsumption and overpopulation. Mandating these recommendations goes hand in hand with improving democratic systems through citizen participation, education and securing human rights globally.
Climate Assemblies are already running on local and national levels, recommending ambitious climate policies. The Global Assembly expands these practices by giving voice to diverse populations on a global scale, with a vision of over 10 million participants annually. This democratic innovation can build a permanent global infrastructure of collective civic intelligence, overcoming current shortcomings in global climate governance.
The video below introduces the Global Assembly, for more content see the links below.
Links
For details, please see the Global Assembly website: www.globalassembly.org/ and the official YouTube channel.
