Salzer, Anja

Climate Citizen Assemblies (CCAs), which have been growing in number in recent years, are a promising approach to shaping the future in response to the challenges of the climate crisis. Climate Citizen Assemblies (CCAs) bring together a diverse group of citizens, randomly selected through a lottery process, to learn, deliberate and make decisions together. As such, they embody the essence of commoning and offer extraordinary emancipatory and transformative possibilities. Reflecting on case studies of CCAs through the lens of commoning can contribute to the development of tools for social change and justice.
Inspired by and working with the commoning patterns identified so far, our research group is exploring emerging patterns of CCAs, some of which may contribute to the pattern language of commoning, and some of which may be more specific to CCAs.