KNOCA - Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies

💡 Do you know KNOCA Quick Reads? 💡 🔦This week, we’re shining the spotlight on KNOCA Quick Reads. Quick reads are short summaries of best-practice recommendations for designing climate assemblies with impact.  Currently, there are Quick Reads on 3 key areas:  ▪️ Setting the Remit for Climate Assemblies  ▪️ Governance of Climate Assemblies   ▪️ Follow-up to Climate Assemblies Quick Reads are great for:  🌊 A quick first dive into a key aspect 🔗Sharing with others to introduce key areas of the practice 🔎Getting a quick overview on issues, previous learnings and recommendations 🎧You can even listen to the individual Quick Reads – it will take you less than 10 minutes! 👉 Check out the Quick Reads here: https://lnkd.in/eTYAFYTr #climateassemblies #delibwave #climate #bestpractice

💡 Do you know KNOCA Briefings? As we have entered the final month of 2024, we’re taking a moment to revisit some of KNOCA’s publications and materials. Maybe you’ve seen them before, perhaps you forgot about them, or they might offer you fresh insights today. 🔦This week, we’re shining the spotlight on KNOCA Briefings - research findings exploring key aspects of climate assembly practices. Currently, there are 11 Briefings available for you to dive into!  A few highlights:  💢 Briefing No.1 explores how the framing of climate change impact the conclusions reached in climate assemblies.    🔀 Briefing No.2 considers how climate assemblies can be integrated into policy processes and cycles.    🌐 Briefing No.3 reflects on how can we ensure legitimacy and resonance of climate assemblies within wider society. 👉 Explore the full collection of KNOCA Briefings here: https://lnkd.in/d2kyUTda #climateassemblies #KNOCA #Briefings #researchfindings #climate 

🎬 Recording Available: Learning Call on Sweden’s Climate Assembly! 👏 A huge thank you to everyone who joined our Learning Call on Sweden’s Climate Assembly (Medborgarråd om klimatet). 🌟 Special thanks to our speakers: 💬 Tim Daw and Sofia Bernett(FAIRTRANS, Stockholm Resilience Centre) for sharing valuable insights as organisers of this complex assembly process. 💬 Assembly member Jenny Larsson, who shared her powerful perspective as a citizen navigating an overwhelming yet enlightening process. She beautifully stated how it became “so clear that we have so much more in common with each other than what polarizes or drives us apart." 💬 Mattias Goldmann (2030-secretariat) for offering an expert outsider's perspective, emphasizing how civil society organizations (CSOs) can embrace and use assembly recommendations to strengthen their advocacy work. 4 Key Learnings:  🔑The Assembly garnered an impressive level of media attention. The comms strategy centred on members’ voices with support from high profile individuals, targeted press releases and an exclusive partnership with a major media outlet. 🔑Significant value was placed on the diversity of perspectives brought to the process by members and commentators. Members were given power to select some of their own commentators. It was discussed how to strike the most appropriate balance between programming by organisers and member empowerment. 🔑The use of the game Climate Fresk proved popular amongst members as a form of bottom-up systems learning. 🔑The response from established civil society organisations and other climate actors has been mixed. The 2030-sekretariatet, a leading CSO in sustainable transport, has been particularly active in integrating the assembly recommendations into its policy work with noticeable impact. 🎥 Access the recording here: https://lnkd.in/dYUUuRwc 💡 Share the recording with anyone who would benefit from the multi-perspective insights of organisers, participant, and external expert on #climateassemblies! #deliberativedemocracy #LearningCall #climate #citizensassembly

✨ HAPPENING TODAY: JOIN OUR LEARNING CALL ON SWEDEN’S NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSEMBLY! What can we learn from the recently held Medborgarråd om klimatet (MoK)? 🗓️ Today   ⏰ 15:00 – 16:30 CET  🌐 Online    What to Expect:  🔎Insights from Tim Daw and Sofia Bernett (FAIRTRANS, Stockholm Resilience Centre) on designing with systems thinking and affecting public discourse. 💭Assembly member Jenny Larsson’s firsthand reflections on making recommendations. 👤Expert commentary from Mattias Goldmann (CEO and Founder of 2030-secretariat) on the process and outcomes. 📩Sign up now: https://lnkd.in/dYUUuRwc We can’t wait to see you all!   #DeliberativeDemocracy #CitizensAssemblies #ClimateGovernance #SystemsThinking  #PublicDiscourse #MedborgarrådOmKlimatet 

🆕NEW KNOCA BRIEFING ON DEVELOPMENTS IN SUB-NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSEMBLIES! 👐We’re excited to share our latest Briefing titled ‘Developments in Sub-National Climate Assemblies: Lessons from Local to Regional Levels’ by Ines Omann, Dr. and Carolin Brodtmann.  🌱When KNOCA was established, its focus was on #climateassemblies commissioned at the national level. Still, from the beginning, we also saw the growing number of local and regional assemblies as fertile ground for innovation in practice and we've increasingly turned our attention towards drawing on this space. 📚This Briefing is a first attempt to systematise our understanding of developments amongst sub-national assemblies. The authors draw together insights from new developments and specific tools used in sub-national climate assemblies in Europe.  For this reason, it is long by KNOCA Briefing standards and is likely to be of primary interest to assembly practitioners and organisers. We have made an effort to present it in a way that makes it as accessible as possible. ✅Find the Briefing here: https://lnkd.in/dsUipACc Let us know your thoughts, and feel free to share with anyone who might find this useful! #Citizensassemblies #new #Climatecrisis #deliberativedemocracy

🔔1 WEEK TO THE LEARNING CALL ON SWEDEN’S CLIMATE ASSEMBLY 🔔 📩 Remember to sign up for the KNOCA Learning Call to hear unique insights into Medborgarråd om klimatet (MoK) an assembly organised by systems modellers and with a focus on affecting public discourse. 📌 Hear how organizers Tim Daw and Sofia Bernett (Stockholm Resilience Centre) reflect on the design process regarding system modelling and affecting public discourse. 📌 Hear assembly member Jenny Larsson reflect on participating and making the recommendations. 📌 Hear climate governance expert Mattias Goldmann(CEO and Founder of 2030-secretariat) offer an external perspective on the assembly’s process and outcomes. The exciting Learning Call is on;  📆26 November 2024  🕓15:00 – 16:30 CET  📍Online Sign up now: https://lnkd.in/dYUUuRwc   #ClimateAssemblies #ClimateGovarnance #LearningCall #DeliberativeDemocracy #CitizensAssemblies #ClimateCrisis #SystemsThinking

🔍How can you design a climate assembly to incorporate support for systems thinking? Join our Learning Call on Sweden’s Climate Assembly (Medborgarråd om klimatet) to hear unique insights into the design and outcomes of the assembly. In the Learning Call, you’ll hear from:  👥The organizers, Tim Daw and Sofia Bernett (FAIRTRANS, Stockholm Resilience Centre) who designed and facilitated the assembly, sharing reflections on the design process. 🙋Assembly member Jenny Larsson who participated in the process. 💬 Independent expert Mattias Goldmann (CEO and Founder of 2030-secretariat) will offer an external perspective on the assembly. 👤Graham Smith (Chair of KNOCA) will host the Learning Call. Event details:  📆26 November 2024  🕓15:00 – 16:30 CET  📍Online Gain insights on a #ClimateAssembly process from multiple angles—through the eyes of its designers, a participant’s lived experience, and an expert outsider’s analysis. 🚩Sign up: https://lnkd.in/dYUUuRwc #MoK #MedborgarrådonKlimatet #KNOCA #CitizensAssembly #delib #democracy #ClimateCrisis #SystemsThinking

🌍 Join our Learning Call on Sweden’s First National Climate Assembly: Medborgarråd om Klimatet This spring, the FAIRTRANS research programme hosted Medborgarråd om klimatet (MoK) where Swedish citizens recommended actions to reduce emissions in light of the Paris Agreement with a focus on transportation 🌱 Event details:  🗓️ 26 November 2024  🕒 15:00 - 16:30 CET  📍 Online Why Join❓  🎲 The #LearningCall will consider lessons drawn from the design and outcomes of the assembly in relation to its communications and #systemsthinking ambitions and use of the ‘Climate Fresk' game.   📢Insights from MoK’s lead organizer Tim Daw and Communications Lead Sofia Bernett, both from Stockholm Resilience Centre. Further contributors will be added to the line-up.   👉 Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dYUUuRwc #climateassembly #deliberative #climatecrisis #MedborgarrådonKlimatet

On 14 October, Child Rights International Network - CRIN, Youth and Environment Europe (YEE) and KNOCA - Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies came together to host a webinar that highlights the impact of children and young people in climate assemblies across the world. 🌿 Key takeaways from our webinar included the following: - Citizens’ assemblies on the climate crisis must consider how to best include children and youth to ensure true citizen representation. Children and young people are citizens now, as well as future citizens who will be impacted by the decisions made today. - Many climate decision-making spaces are not accessible to, nor inclusive of, children and young people - particularly at the global levels. Climate assemblies can be a positive way to ensure children and young people have opportunities to influence decisions being made at all levels of governance. Future global climate assemblies might also help us address the chronic lack of child and youth representation on the global stage. - The impacts of involving children and youth in climate assemblies are wide ranging. These impacts include increased climate literacy and sustainable behaviour changes among children and young people, as well as in their families, schools and communities; strengthened intergenerational learning, relationships and understanding; enhanced legitimacy of assembly recommendations; and climate policies that better reflect the interests of all current generations. - Creating a safe, positive and inclusive space during assemblies is key to ensuring that every participant can share their views, ideas and experiences. There are unique, practical, safeguarding, ethical and design considerations when involving children and youth, which can and should be navigated by collaborating with child and youth organisations with expertise in these fields. - Involving children and young people in the design, agenda setting and facilitation of climate assemblies ensures that process and outcomes best reflect their needs and interests; this makes their addition a meaningful experience for all involved. - Climate assemblies are allowed to be interactive and engaging! 🎨 Using creative, participatory methods like drama, play, future visioning, art and even getting outside into nature helps children and youth (as well as adults) to connect with each other and their environment. They can learn, deliberate, have fun and develop innovative, out-of-the box ideas in wilder spaces. Creativity means that everyone can express themselves in their own, unique way. - Climate assemblies should empower and support younger citizens to take forward and implement their own climate actions, as well as informing and influencing climate decision-making policies.  🌎 For a larger summary, access to shared resources or to watch our event in full, see bit.ly/40roHvi. #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateCrisis

🎬 Recording of our workshop on the Impacts of the French Climate Citizens’ Convention is now available!    Thank you to all who participated in the workshop – it was insightful and aspired to new questions for future reflections and debate on impact.    🔑 During the workshop key insights from the forthcoming KNOCA Briefings were presented by the authors. A huge thanks to Claire Mellier, Selma Tilikete, Coco Bates, JOSE LUIS FERNANDEZ MARTINEZ, and Alina Averchenkova for their great work.    Key insights:   💡The new KNOCA study on the policy impact of the French Convention provides evidence that 20% of recommendations were fully implemented, with 51% modified.   ❓Is that a good result?     💡The new KNOCA study on the impact of national assemblies on digital media coverage shows that the French Convention had significantly higher traction.   ❓ How much of that was down to the design of the assembly and its communications strategy?     💡 The new KNOCA study collating academic and policy research on the impact of the French Convention shows a great deal of focus on the direct impact on policy, members and the activities of civil society organisations.   ❓ Do we need to pay more attention to systemic effects?    The Briefings will be finalized within a few weeks. We will let you know!    🔗Find the full recording, 2/3 presentation slides and draft Briefings here: https://lnkd.in/dWDef4Ky   #Impact #ClimateAssemblies #CitizensAssemblies #ConventionCitoyennepourleClimat