Guia per al disseny, l’organització i la facilitació d’assemblees ciutadanes climàtiques

The document outlines a comprehensive framework for implementing climate citizens' assemblies, emphasizing deliberative democracy to generate public policy recommendations. It details a five-phase process—preparation, learning, reflection/deliberation, recommendation drafting, and decision-making—while providing specific guidance on independent governance, inclusive participant selection, and the use of digital facilitation tools. The guide is based on experiences from state-level and regional assemblies in Spain, including those in Barcelona, Mallorca, and Guipúzcoa.

• A climate citizens' assembly is a deliberative democracy exercise using a representative sample of citizens to issue public policy recommendations to governments and parliaments regarding the climate emergency.
• Effective governance requires an independent and transparent structure to ensure the process remains autonomous from the promoting entity. Examples from the Spanish state assembly include an independent coordination panel, a multidisciplinary group of independent experts, and specialized technical teams for selection, facilitation, and communication.
• The deliberative process is structured into five non-linear, iterative phases: Preparation (Phase 0), Learning and Knowledge (Phase 1), Reflection and Deliberation (Phase 2), Preparation of Recommendations (Phase 3), and Decision Making (Phase 4), followed by Communication and Follow-up (Phase 5).
• To ensure accessibility and inclusion, the guide recommends measures such as providing diverse facilitation teams, ensuring physical and digital accessibility, offering language support, and addressing the emotional impact of climate change information.
• The process for developing recommendations typically moves from a broad 'brainstorming' of ideas to the grouping of objectives, technical refinement by experts, and final voting. In the Spanish state assembly, recommendations were filtered based on their contribution to climate adaptation, mitigation, and a just transition.
• Decision-making systems must be ratified by the participants. The Spanish state assembly used a simple majority vote (50% + 1 of 'Yes' vs 'No' votes), with specific rules for high abstention rates: proposals with over 30% abstentions required a 66% 'Yes' vote for final approval.
• Facilitation is defined as the set of skills and tools used to manage three pillars: objectives (expected results), processes (methods and procedures), and people (emotions and relationships).
• The guide recommends a mix of digital and physical tools for facilitation. Specific tools mentioned include Zoom for videoconferencing, Groupmap, Mural, and Miro for collaborative work, and Mentimeter and Sli.do for polling and voting.

APA

Piñeiro, C., & González, L. L. (n.d.). Guia per al disseny, l’organització i la facilitació d’assemblees ciutadanes climàtiques. Basque Centre for Climate Change. https://info.bc3research.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/bc3_Guia_disenio_org_facilita_asam_ciud_clima_CA.pdf

Chicago

Piñeiro, Conchi, and Laura Lucio González. Guia per al disseny, l’organització i la facilitació d’assemblees ciutadanes climàtiques. Basque Centre for Climate Change, n.d. https://info.bc3research.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/bc3_Guia_disenio_org_facilita_asam_ciud_clima_CA.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{pieirondguia, author = {Piñeiro, Conchi and González, Laura Lucio}, title = {{Guia per al disseny, l’organització i la facilitació d’assemblees ciutadanes climàtiques}}, institution = {Basque Centre for Climate Change}, url = {https://info.bc3research.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/bc3_Guia_disenio_org_facilita_asam_ciud_clima_CA.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }