TRENT. The first day of the simulation of the assembly of citizens of Trento “Act now for the climate emergency” took place yesterday 20 June, from 6pm to 10pm.
In the central hall of the Muse 50 citizens of Trento drawn by lot through a stratified sample they gathered for the first of three days of training and deliberation regarding the decarbonisation process of the city of Trento.
In recent years the Trentino group Extinction Rebellion organized several pressure actions that pushed the Trento city council on 6 April 2022 to approve a motion for the establishment of the Citizen Assemblies tool to combat the climate emergency. Thanks to the collaboration with Muse, the project was born to create the simulation of the citizens’ assembly which also involves the Municipality and the University of Trento.
After the institutional greetings from councilor Giulia Casonato and professor Louisa Parks, she spoke Francesca Cassarà on behalf of Extinction Rebellion Trentino who declared: “Climate and ecological crisis means social and economic crisis, but also democratic crisis. We are already seeing the effects of this in the decline in voter turnout at every level and in the rise of authoritarian and anti-democratic ideologies that feed on people’s fears. As Extinction Rebellion we ask that we move from a representative system to a truly participatory one, through the instrument of Citizens’ Assemblies. These Assemblies, if they had deliberative power, could allow citizens to develop public policies, suggest them and show the way to elected officials, to find shared solutions to address and mitigate the climate and ecological crisis”.
The results of the Assembly will be presented to all citizens in the autumn.
