Join City University of New York (CUNY) for a virtual panel discussion on "Building Climate Justice Through Participatory Governance: Frameworks and Case Studies from the U.S." with Lebaron Sims, Demos; Johana Bozuwa, Community and Climate Project; and Thomas Hanna, Democracy Collaborative. It will be moderated by Michael Menser, Brooklyn College and CUNY. with Denise Thompson, John Jay College/CUNY, as the respondent.

Climate justice requires not just technological innovation, but institutional transformation. But across the globe, democracy is under attack and in the United States, trust in institutions has reached a new low. Meanwhile, climate change is intensifying and local, state and federal governments are struggling to plan and respond justly. The country’s institutions need a radical democratic makeover ASAP but what does that look like and where should we start? This panel brings together different research groups analyzing recent innovations on how to do democratic participatory governance and climate justice: from a water utility in Pittsburgh, Pennylvania, to climate change governance in Houston, Texas, to electric utilities in New York. The panelists will also look at different perspectives of institutional democratization: the anchor institution model, social-public democratization and economic democracy.