Climate, Democracy and the Benefits of Citizens' Assemblies with Rebecca Willis - Episode 20

Rising with the Tide

Welcome fellow travellers!

Your hosts Jamie and Skander talk with Rebecca Willis, Professor in Practice at Lancaster University' LEC, Expert Lead for the Climate Assembly UK and Trustee of the New Economics Foundation.

Rebecca's work touches on so many issues, it's difficult to sum it all up in a few sentences. She told us of her work with Climate Assembly UK, how Citizens' Assemblies could change the way we see/interact with politics and what issues they encountered as a team.

We also discussed France's own CA, the possibility and difficulties of a direct democracy system like that of Switzerland, and whether all British Citizens' Assemblies should be named "Little Britain".

You can find Rebecca Willis on Twitter @Bankfieldbecky and her work on rebeccawillis.co.uk

Let us know your thoughts at [e-mail] as well as what you'd like us to talk about next!

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Song: "What a Wonderful World" by Maz O'Connor