Yale University, Respublica and the European Climate Foundation: “Toward Citizen-Legislators? The Case of the French Citizen’ Convention for Climate (2019-21)” Day 1.

Yale University, Respublica and the European Climate Foundation present a three day symposium: 

“Toward Citizen-Legislators?  The Case of the French Citizen’ Convention for Climate (2019-21).”

See the full schedule and register online at https://campuspress.yale.edu/citizenlegislators.

First Session

The perspective of the stakeholders of the Citizens’ Convention for Climate (CCC)

• Chair: Hélène Landemore (Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University)
• Moderator: Sophie Guillain, Executive director, Partner of Res publica

Screening of selected scenes from Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary on the Convention (3 min)

Speakers:

• Eloïse (citizen, member of the CCC)
• Jean-Pierre (citizen, member of the CCC)
• Mélanie Blanchetot (citizen, member of the CCC)
• Mélanie Cosnier (citizen, member of the CCC)
• Claire Burlet (citizen, member of the CCC, in break-out rooms)
• Muriel Pivard (citizen, member of the CCC, in break-out rooms)
• Cyril Dion (witness of the CCC – author & screenwriter)
• Thierry Pech (Co-president of the ruling committee of the CCC – Head of Terra Nova)
• Gilles-Laurent Rayssac (coordinator of the CCC – President of Res publica)
• Sébastien Treyer (member of the CCC’s support group – Head of the IDDRI)
• Marine Fleury (member of the CCC’s forensic support group – lecturer of public law)
• Marc Fesneau (minister of relations with the Parliament and Citizen participation)

Schedule:

• 3pm CET / 9am ET: Opening remarks and introduction – Hélène Landemore and Gilles-Laurent Rayssac (10 minutes)
• Selected scenes from Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary on the Citizen’s Convention on Climate (5 minutes)
• 3:15pm CET / 9:15am ET: Stakeholders’ interventions
• 3:50pm CET / 9:50am ET: Intervention of the citizens members of the CCC
• 4:20pm CET / 10:20am ET: Dialogue with the audience
• 5:30pm CET / 11:30am ET: Group work (by language) around the question: what can we learn from this experiment? (30 minutes)
• 6:10pm CET / 12:10pm ET: Each group shares their ideas (45 minutes / 1 or 2 idées per group, depending on the number of participants)
• 6:40pm CET / 12:40pm ET: Marc Fesneau French Minister in chare of relations with Parliament and Citizen participation
• 6:50pm CET / 12:50pm ET: Conclusion of the first session – Hélène Landemore
• 7pm CET / 1:00 pm ET: End of the first session