How Green Is Your Deal?

What happens to democratic systems as climate impacts intensify? How do heatwaves, droughts, floods, and rising inequality shape political trust, participation, and stability? And can democracies withstand the pressures of a warming world — or even help us navigate them in a more just and inclusive way?

In this episode, Daniel Lindvall shares his insights about how natural disasters and environmental crises could temporarily boost civic engagement or threaten democratic stability altogether.
This season is produced in collaboration with RETOOL, a HORIZON EUROPE project aiming to advance our understanding of how to address the twin challenges of responding to the climate imperative while strengthening and reinvigorating democratic governance.
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Music: ‘Lazy Walk’ by Cheel.

Delegated and implementing acts form a crucial but often overlooked aspect of EU climate policymaking. These technical measures play an important role in ensuring efficiency in climate governance, but they also raise important questions concerning accountability if they become more political in nature.

Jeff Rosamund and Brendan Moore join us today to shed light on these more hidden measures, their use by policymakers and their impact on the quality of EU democracy.

This season is produced in collaboration with RETOOL, a HORIZON EUROPE project aiming to advance our understanding of how to address the twin challenges of responding to the climate imperative while strengthening and reinvigorating democratic governance.
To stay up to date on ‘How Green is Your Deal?’ episodes, please follow GreenDeal-NET on Bluesky or LinkedIn.

The EU requires member states to engage the wider public in the drafting of their National Energy and Climate Plans. However, the quality of participation varies significantly between EU countries.
In this episode, Lea Schewe discusses why public participation in these plans is so important, the challenges participation faces, and what could explain variation in quality.

This season is produced in collaboration with RETOOL, a HORIZON EUROPE project aiming to advance our understanding of how to address the twin challenges of responding to the climate imperative while strengthening and reinvigorating democratic governance.
To stay up to date on ‘How Green is Your Deal?’ episodes, please follow GreenDeal-NET on Bluesky or LinkedIn.

In this episode with Aishwarya Machani, we explore how citizens’ assemblies are used to facilitate climate action and increase the legitimacy of the climate transition.
Can citizens’ assemblies help bridge political divides? Do their recommendations lead to meaningful change? And what can they teach us about building more democratic and effective responses to the climate crisis?
This season is produced in collaboration with RETOOL, a HORIZON EUROPE project aiming to advance our understanding of how to address the twin challenges of responding to the climate imperative while strengthening and reinvigorating democratic governance.
To stay up to date on ‘How Green is Your Deal?’ episodes, please follow GreenDeal-NET on Bluesky or LinkedIn.
 
Music: ‘Lazy Walk’ by Cheel.

This first episode with Diarmuid Torney, associate professor at Dublin City University, focuses on the challenges democracies and climate action face, and how democratic innovations can address them both. From citizens’ assemblies to scientific advisory bodies, new democratic approaches are emerging that aim to include more people and societal groups in climate policymaking. But do they actually lead to faster, fairer action, or do they risk slowing things down when time is already running out?
This season is produced in collaboration with RETOOL, a HORIZON EUROPE project aiming to advance our understanding of how to address the twin challenges of responding to the climate imperative while strengthening and reinvigorating democratic governance.
To stay up to date on ‘How Green is Your Deal?’ episodes, pleasefollow GreenDeal-NET on Bluesky or LinkedIn.
 
Music: ‘Lazy Walk’ by Cheel.