Deliberative Democracy: How Can It Support Effective & Just Climate Policy?

This panel discussion will explore how citizens’ juries and assemblies can help decision-makers engage diverse groups of citizens on policies that affect their communities, to develop effective and just climate policy. A panel of experts from academia and practice will consider the opportunities, as well as the challenges, of employing deliberative democratic processes to strengthen policy and trust in democracy.

Speakers:

● Lucy Farrow, Partner, Thinks Insight & Strategy

● Prof Alan Renwick, Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit, UCL

● Reema Patel, Founder of Elgon Social Research

● Prof Tim Schwanen, Director of the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford

The event will be chaired by Dr Alison Chisholm, University of Oxford. It is organised by the University of Oxford’s Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation (GCHU) and the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences (NDPCHS).

This in-person event is free and open to all. The panel discussion will take place at 14.00, followed by refreshments at 15:30.

Please note, this event will take place at the Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BD

We will record this event and a link to view it will be available on the RHRN website and the GCHU website at a later date. There will also be a photographer taking photos at the event.

This event is held in association with the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, as part of the Oxford Local Programme of events themed around climate change, human rights, and climate justice.

Open to: Members of Kellogg College, the public,