by kultur.work | Sep 23, 2015 | News and Comment
In his latest essay Climate Policy: Democracy is not an inconvenience, Professor Nico Stehr—founding director of the European Center for Sustainability Research—reflects on the growing number of climate scientists who are not only expressing their impatience with...
by Ann Thorpe | Jun 20, 2015 | News and Comment
The group 10:10 “is about doing practical stuff that helps solve climate change” and has a particular interest in community energy. In 2013 the group helped set up a renewable energy co-op in Balcombe, refocusing a “fracking village” around solar power. The Back...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 26, 2015
Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB) Group is an emerging alliance of leading global, regional and national knowledge brokers specialising in climate and development information. They launched a Manifesto on September 17th 2015, to better acknowledge the critical role of...
by Ann Thorpe | Apr 24, 2015 | News and Comment
How should we account for the fact that a great deal of environmental damage associated with one’s own country actually occurs overseas? For example, Chinese manufacturers making our shoes, electronics and bicycles emit a lot of carbon on our behalf. Are...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 2, 2015
The UK climate act formed the Committee on Climate Change to advise on UK policy (Photo: The CCC) The UK’s 2008 Climate Change Act was one of the first pieces of national legislation to recognise carbon limits and to commit successive governments to binding...
by Ann Thorpe | Jan 6, 2015 | News and Comment
No taxation without representation, right? So one way of guaranteeing a carbon tax is to impose one on yourself. That’s just what David Lawrence did and he tells the story over on The Energy Collective in his article “a Carbon tax on me: one person’s story of a...
by Andrea Westall | Oct 20, 2014
The Citizens Panel on Edmonton’s Energy and Climate Challenges was organised by Alberta Climate Dialogue (ABCD) and the Centre for Public Involvement (CPI) and included 60 residents who met for 3 months using deliberative techniques to offer their advice and feedback...
by Andrea Westall | Oct 20, 2014
World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWWViews) aimed to involve the world’s citizens in global policy-making by bringing together 4000 citizens in 38 countries to deliberate for a day on the 2009 UN climate change negotiations. The ideas were pulled together into...
by Andrea Westall | Oct 20, 2014
The People’s Climate March is an international anti-climate change project, that started out on 21 September 2014 with more than 300,000 people advocating political action against climate change. Although based in New York, the event was global in scope and...
by Ann Thorpe | Apr 24, 2014
9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change 24th-30th April 2015, Nairobi, Kenya The conference theme for this year’s International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9) is ‘Measuring and enhancing effective...
by Andrea Westall | Jan 21, 2012
The Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change was a piece of research which ran from late 2009 to early 2012. It resulted in five reports which explore the question of: How might democracy and participatory decision-making have evolved to cope with the...
by Andrea Westall | Nov 17, 2010
FDSD and Chatham House held a half-day seminar at Chatham House to consider how various climate change scenarios could affect democracy in the UK and US, and to ask whether international policy-makers should share some of the blame for why liberal democracies are...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 21, 2010
Report of an event held by FDSD, Schumacher College, Dartington Hall Trust, Salzburg Global Seminar and Goodenough College, on 19th and 20th April 2010 at Goodenough College, London The seminar focussed on: what innovations are needed in democracy and participatory...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 21, 2010
Drawing on her experience at Australian online campaign group GetUp, Sally Hill considers the rise of online activism such as MoveOn, GetUp, 38 Degrees, and Avaaz, on democracy, focusing primarily on their climate change activities. Download The full paper by Sally...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 19, 2010
FDSD collaborated with Schumacher College, Dartington Hall Trust, Salzburg Global Seminar and Goodenough College in London to present an international leadership seminar on Mobilising Democracy to Tackle Climate Change on 19-20 April 2010. The seminar focussed on:...
by Andrea Westall | Sep 21, 2009
FDSD urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to include, as part of any future International Day of Democracy, reflection on the democratic challenge of climate change, since it is one of the most significant failures of democracy to date. The letter argues that...
