Enhancing citizen engagement on the climate crisis

A short and useful guide for policymakers wishing to utilise deliberation to further engage citizens.

It aims to provide answers to policymakers questioning: What form of public engagement is appropriate? If and when deliberation is appropriate, what rules should I follow? How should I communicate about the climate crisis? The resource is structured around these three questions, elaborating established best practice and empirical results from our research related to climate governance, deliberation and communication. It details aspects that worked well from Ireland's Citizens’ Assembly on climate change as well as suggestions for using deliberation as a means of public engagement.

Source: Citizens' Climate Research Project, Dublin City University
Author information: Laura Devaney, Martha Coleman, Diarmuid Torney, Pat Brereton

Year of publication: 2019