5- ACTION-Acting for Sustainability (10-15 years)

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“LONDON, Oct 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -

Climate change poses "an existential challenge" for

democratic governments and could lead to more

authoritarian rule if eforts to curb global warming

founder, fuelling a surge in catastrophic impacts from

hunger to heatwaves, researchers warned on Tuesday.

Worsening disasters and the resulting societal upheaval

could "be used as an excuse for autocratic ... regimes to

curtail democratic freedoms, as experienced during the

COVID-19 pandemic," warned a report from the

nonproft International Institute for Democracy and

Electoral Assistance (IDEA).

But democracies could take steps now to shore up their

ability to deal with climate change, from lowering the

voting age and making it easier to fle class-action

lawsuits to tackling disinformation and setting a carbon

price, it noted.

"This is the time to be bold, and experiment and

rethink," said Kevin Casas-Zamora, the Costa Rican

secretary-general

of

International

IDEA,

a

Sweden-based intergovernmental organisation that

works to strengthen democratic institutions.

As threats from a heating planet grow, "we cannot

simply do business as usual with democracy", said the

politician and lawyer."

“Amongst the forms of participatory democracy which

can complement and enrich the work of representative

institutions, citizens’ assemblies are the best placed to

harness the collective wisdom and allow citizens to

reclaim the public space, providing the authorities with

useful information on people’s preferences and

indications on how to reconcile a multitude of

conficting interests.”

WHY POLITICIANS HAVE

FAILED TO TACKLE CLIMATE

CHANGE

Global warming is the defning threat facing the planet.

So why has so little been done to curb it?

DEMOCRACIES THAT FAIL TO ACT

ON CLIMATE CHANGE FACE

'EXISTENTIAL' THREAT

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DEMOCRACY TO TACKLE

CLIMATE CHANGE

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