Exploring the transformative impact of a global citizens assembly on participants and the broader community, fostering empathy, knowledge, and behavior change in addressing the climate crisis. Emphasizing the need for empowering governance designs and innovative institutions to amplify citizen voices in global decision-making processes.
In 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, Jon Stever launched an extraordinary experiment to draw together a representative sample of the world to discuss the climate and ecological crisis the world is facing. In this conversation, I talk to him about how he and his team did that, and what it teaches us about the potential for citizen assemblies generally.