The Climate Nature Emergency Hub contributes to the debate on the need for expanded notions of environmental justice in Global North countries and moving towards a pluriverse. 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.

Moving towards new moral frameworks and pillars less harmful to the planet, and reaching towards a pluriverse where many worlds fit, requires deliberation. An important and innovative component of the Climate-Ecology Blueprint is that it incorporates the application of a Citizens’ Assembly, working in collaboration with national governments and expert bodies, whose decisions, after a thorough period of deliberation, will be binding in law in creating the strategy to meet the Blueprint’s objectives.

There is a surge of localised demands happening in Global North countries, where Citizens’ Assemblies are being used in an augmented manner to build trust and to collectively create decision-making processes that are compelling, fair, transparent, and culturally diverse. Citizens’ Assemblies give, ideally, legally binding advice to decision-makers. They use sortition to select members for the assembly from different ages, classes, and regions.

Questions Citizens’ Assemblies on climate and biodiversity loss can deliberate on range from how can how can we accelerate the pace of transitioning away from fossil fuels in a socially just way?  How can we safeguard justice for non-human entities, whilst retaining a socially engaged commitment to the right to decent living? 

Some perspectives of researchers, artists and activists on the climate and ecological crisis are outlined here as examples of themes that could be hypothetically deliberated on in a Citizens’ Assembly. The themes addressed in the example cases we present here include justice – ranging from intersectional justice to more-than-human perspectives –, and the necessity of art to stimulate the imagination for the creation of other worlds.