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"Ihre Stimme wurde gehört" 🦋 www.buergerrat.de/aktuelles/ih... Less food waste, longer warranty periods for products and more incentives for travel by train, recommendations made by the first National Council of Citizens of the Netherlands. 1 Dec 2025 the Assembly handed its proposals to the govt.

"Demokratie von morgen beginnt im Gespräch von heute" - Dr. Angela Jain von der @bertelsmannst.bsky.social ist am 2. Dezember um 18 Uhr im Münchner PlanTreff im Gespräch zum Thema "Stadtentwicklung als demokratischer Prozess". veranstaltungen.muenchen.de/plan/veranst... #bürgerrat

Radical with Amol Rajan Society & Culture Podcast · Updated weekly · Conversations about tomorrow, from Today. Every week Today programme presenter Amol Rajan talks to radicals, pioneers and innovators from all over the worl...

podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/r... listen to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social wants the UK govt to lead a global emergency action plan as it did in World War Two to address what he calls climate and nature breakdown. But ultimately he says we need a policy shift, which makes polluters pay.

Greenpeace warns in a report: European investments in energy and agriculture may worsen environmental and social harm in the Middle East and North Africa - Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa - Gr... European investments in energy and agriculture in the region may worsen environmental and social harm. Thus reveals a new report by Greenpeace MENA and the MENAFem Movement for Economic, Development, ...

www.greenpeace.org/mena/en/beyo...

Delegates announce global citizens assembly Replies by 🎓William J. Ripple, 🎓Michael E. Mann, 🎓Fernando Valladares, 🎓Roger C. Bales, 🎓Gavin L. Foster +59 more scholars

Delegates announce global citizens assembly

Delegates and activists at the UN climate summit announced plans for a global citizens' assembly on agriculture and climate in 2026 and showcased cross sector agreements pressing for national policies.

With replies from 64 scholars.

A Global Citizens’ Assembly could be COP30’s boldest legacy Brazil has endorsed an innovative way to truly engage people in the politics of climate. The next presidency must keep this alive.

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www.iisd.org/articles/ins... For COP 30 to mark a real turning point, countries that have not yet submitted their NDCs should do so with clear commitments on fossil fuel production, reflecting the agreed global goal of transitioning away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner.

Would be fun if the BBC sued Trump in Florida

How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries

"Her story is a reminder that even the largest corporations can be stopped when ordinary people refuse to back down."
Diane Wilson, a fisherwoman from a small town in Texas, took on ExxonMobil.
Guess who won?
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Get your #climate facts. So much change so fast. #FollowAll in this great #StarterPack and keep up a little easier! Boop boop 💃🏻

How Wages for Housework sparked an international solidarity movement The 1970s movement paved the way for queer, Black, trans and sex working feminist organising across the world today

How Wages for Housework sparked an international solidarity movement

Big Tech And Big Carbon Fueling COP30 Misinformation, Groups Claim With the COP30 climate conference kicking off in Brazil this week, misinformation and disinformation are swirling.

Big Tech And Big Carbon Fueling #COP30 Misinformation, Groups Claim

#climatecrisis
@caadcoalition.bsky.social
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I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
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What if we measured progress not by GDP—but by how well people and the planet are doing? 🌍

A new study led by Club of Rome member Ida Kubiszewski identifies a 20-component indicator to help build global consensus beyond GDP.

Read more➡️ vist.ly/4dadb

#BeyondGDP

What if collapse is not the end, but the beginning of renewal?

On The Club of Rome #Podcast, Till Kellerhoff talks with @nafeez.bsky.social & Ginie Servant-Miklos about how today’s crises could mark a deep transformation in how humanity lives & organises itself.

🎧 Listen here: vist.ly/4bka8

EU-Staaten beschließen abgeschwächtes Klimaziel für 2040 Der Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen soll um 90 Prozent im Vergleich zu 1990 sinken. Bis zu fünf Prozentpunkte können Staaten durch Kauf von Emissionszertifikaten im Ausland ausgleichen

Im allerletzten Moment vor der Klimakonferenz haben sich die Minister*innen doch noch auf 90 Prozent weniger CO₂ bis 2040 geeinigt – allerdings mit vielen Schlupflöchern und Hintertüren.

Bill Gates defends contentious climate shift "I'm glad people are listening," he said, before adding that it was hard to convey "nuanced positions nowadays."

As I am one of the climate scientists he is referring to here - and I am a scientist who decided to dedicate her life to working on climate precisely because of how unjustly it disproportionately impacts the poor and vulnerable - let me clarify my rationale and thoughts below. 🧵

Do listen in. It became quite, ahem, heated.

How can citizens and journalists hold back authoritarianism, far-right populism and hate? Join our live event with - George Monbiot - Nafeez Ahmed - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - Nick Lowles Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November. Book now: http://bit.ly/BylinesHope

How can citizens and journalists hold back authoritarianism, far-right populism and hate?

Join our live event with

- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles

Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.

Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

America’s super-rich destroying the planet’s safe climate spaces.

Wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%.

Corporations spend $277,000 a year on anti-climate lobbying.

Super rich control political system, strangling life. What's to be done

🚨URGENT - Planning and Infrastructure Bill Since March, key Government figures have sought to present a false choice between nature and growth. We have been told that spiders have blocked towns, and that bats and newts ...

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We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

The power of participation From Your Party to our movement.

Modern “democracy” was built to protect the rich.

Elections, parties, branches — all systems of domination.

Real democracy means sortition, participation, and people deciding for themselves.
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How can YOU help fix the climate crisis? This new guide I researched and created with support from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social will help you find & flex your climate superpowers:
👩‍⚖️ Citizen
💼 Professional
💵 Investor
✈️ Consumer
🌟 Role Model
Check out jointheshift.earth and let's #MakeSHIFThappen!

🎬 Livestreaming Belgium's Permanent Assemblies

Next Tuesday, October 14th, we will fill the Brussels Parliament with democratic innovators from around the globe. Registrations to attend in person are sold out, but you can now join us online!

🔴 Watch the livestream: youtube.com/live/UCxYhnK...

Democracy in Crisis: Should a Permanent European Citizens’ Assembly Supplement the European Parliament? - European Alternatives A European Parliament – Democratic Odyssey Roundtable📍 European Parliament, Brussels🗓️ Tuesday 14 October 2025 | 10:00 – 12:00 REGISTER HERE TO PARTICIPATE ON-SITE REGISTER HERE TO PARTICIPATE ONLINE ...

Should a Permanent European Citizens’ Assembly be established alongside the European Parliament?

Register now to participate in this this roundtable on October 14th in
Brussels in-person or online!

#CitizensAssembly

Climate Assemblies - New Civic Institutions for a Climate-Changed World Edited by Oliver Escobar and Stephen Elstub Published by Fe Gruyter Book cover depicts the globe, with people gathering around it Colours: yellow, black an d blue

📚 new open access book: "Climate Assemblies - New Civic Institutions for a Climate-Changed World" 🌍

✅ 25 co-authors examine the state of the field and the reasons behind the growing hope and hype about climate assemblies

✅Free PDF available here 👉🏼 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Rechtspopulismus - Das Sterben einer Demokratie vollzieht sich schleichend Extremismus-Forscher Peter Neumann und Journalist Richard Schneider untersuchen in ihrem neuen Buch, wie Rechtspopulisten Demokratien schleichend aushöhlen.

Wie stirbt eine #Demokratie? "Nicht durch dramatische Umbrüche, sondern schleichend", schreiben Peter Neumann, Professor für Sicherheitsstudien, & Journalist Richard Schneider in ihrem neuen Buch. Zu hören bei "Lesart" im Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
🎧 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/extremismus-...

YouTube video by Mehr Demokratie e.V. 15 Minuten Demokratie: Wie fühlt es sich an, an einem Bürgerrat teilzunehmen?

Manfred Heigl hat 2024 an einem #Bürgerrat in München teilgenommen. In der ersten unserer zwei Video-Podcastfolgen anlässlich der #Verfassungsviertelstunde in Bayern berichtet er von dieser demokratischen Erfahrung.
🎧 Zur Podcast-Folge: youtu.be/cTUUMq4GuO8

Democracy’s next wave: A conversation with David Van Reybrouck From sortition to preferendums, Van Reybrouck speaks with Claudia Chwalisz about why citizens must be at the heart of 21st-century democracy

„One-off assemblies are like one healthy meal. Better than nothing, but it won’t give you a healthy lifestyle. To rebuild trust in democracy, we need something lasting.“

Read @cchwalisz.bsky.social interview with David Van Reybrouck on the future of citizens‘ assemblies.

#CitizensAssembly