Weaving the Pluriverse
Through Deliberation

In the spirit of participatory democracy, the Climate-Ecology Blueprint provides the framework to incorporate the implementation of a Citizens’ Assembly(CA). The CA deliberates in collaboration with its respective national government, supported and overseen by expert bodies, in order to create a climate-ecology strategy to address the synergistic climate-ecology objectives.

Deliberative processes in the Global North can support a move towards a pluriverse: a world where many worlds fit, eventually transcending the false dichotomy that separate entities of climate and nature exist.

The pluriverse is about challenging, destabilizing and transforming habitual forms of knowing, being, and doing, and it can be done by different strategies such as localised economies.

Below you can familiarise yourself with the deliberative processes and debates that stress the multiplicity of voices and perspectives in decision-making.

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How can we to halt the worst excesses of material extractivism, consumption and pollution and the injustices of ecocide through a legitimate, decision-making process, in which a representative strata of stakeholders in society can engage? How can we ensure that the tenets of the Precautionary Principle – the imperative to ‘act now’, enshrined in the original UNFCCC principles, are applied? The Blueprint provides one such pragmatic approach. 

The Blueprint is an evidence-based, synergistic climate-ecology-societal  framework and protocol drafted in the style of a piece of potential legislation, in response to the existential threat posed to humanity, non-human species and ecosystems on land and in the oceans.

The Climate-Ecology Emergency Hub provides a platform to explain the ‘Blueprint’ in detail and to generate diverse arguments as to why such a  concept would justify serious consideration as a practical tool were it adapted to be applied to a diversity of scenarios, such as in public institutions (schools, universities, civil service etc.), the private sector – i.e. businesses and in grassroots organisations.

What is key is that the Blueprint’s principles are endorsed and put into practice.

The Blueprint is a proposition that transcends all party politics and  is holistic in capturing the synergy between nature restoration and protection and climate mitigation and adaptation, whilst applying  social justice and  exercising processes of progressive democracy, in the form of a citizens’ assembly. In other words, meaningful stakeholder engagement facilitated at all levels. 

The Climate-Ecology Blueprint (‘Blueprint’) is adapted from the Climate and Nature(CAN) Bill. The latter was  conceived by experts in the field of climate science, ecology, ecological economics and deliberative democracy, and drafted in the form of a  UK Private Member’s Bill, which led to a UK national campaign to pass what was to become the Climate and Nature Bill – a proposed piece of UK legislation.

We hope that you will be inspired to initiate and enable change through the application, in some form, of the Blueprint principles and framework. There is potential for elements of the Blueprint to be utilised as a means of amending and strengthening existing environmental laws in a given country.

The Blueprint stands as a template for Postgrowth in civil society, the public and private sectors. 

Here, below, provides a summary of the Blueprint concept in its ‘legislative’ formulation –