Phoenix

Climate change is today's most urgent geopolitical challenge for Europe and the world. It is an unprecedented challenge in which different territories, social groups, and stakeholders will have to coordinate to a scale never seen before.

For this reason, we think that the ordinary instruments of representative democracy will not cut it: climate change will not stop at administrative borders.
As we need to foster environmental and social governance, we must not forget the role of democratic governance in stabilising paradigmatic changes, such as the one that the European Green Deal will entail.

In recent decades, a new host of 'democratic innovations' has emerged to assist in such processes. Democratic innovations allow citizens to participate in political debate meaningfully, finding more inclusive policy solutions.

We want to raise the bar even higher with PHOENIX by hybridising participatory and deliberative practices.
By doing this, we should be able to design democratic governance procedures that will allow both to collect the positions of people who usually do not engage in politics and reach a consensus on the best policies for the territories under investigation.

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