How Green Is Your Deal?

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.
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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.

Let us take you to Brazil, where COP30 took place in November, to continue our conversation about international climate governance. You’ve probably heard the term “COP” before, but what actually happens there? And what does this process really decide for the planet’s future?
In this episode, we unpack the architecture of internationalclimate governance: how it works, why it matters, and what a multilateral setting can achieve in increasingly turbulent times. To help us make sense of it all, we’re joined by Karin Bäckstrand,professor at Stockholm University and a leading expert on global climate governance.
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Music: ‘Lazy Walk’ by Cheel.

Do you want to learn more about the European climate transition but you don’t know where to start?
Are you interested in getting your information straight from experts themselves?
Then How Green Is Your Deal? is just the podcast foryou! In 20 to 30-minute episodes our host Jana Gheuens talks with climate experts about their latest research findings.
Together we explore everything from how the EU is planning to reach climate neutrality, the challenges it faces, and the ideas that guide it.
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