This report, from International IDEA, aims to increase the knowledge and understanding of the potential and challenges of citizens’ assemblies and other forms of deliberative democracy, as well as their capacity to improve climate policies and climate action, with a particular focus on the Global South. It describes how and when citizens’ assemblies and other practices of citizen deliberation can work towards such a purpose.

The Report uses academic research, reports, databases and case studies, and combines these sources with original research and an inventory of climate assemblies in the Global South. It presents lessons on how to plan and design climate assemblies to maximize their impact.