FACTOR explored how citizen deliberation can facilitate just and informed climate transition. FACTOR analyzed various obstacles to an agreement regarding climate justice, including individual biases and misperceptions, and how deliberative processes can potentially counteract these obstacles.
FACTOR organized deliberative mini-publics in order to help citizens and policymakers make informed and balanced judgments regarding climate transitions. A Citizens’ Jury on carbon-neutral road traffic was organized in April 2022 in collaboration with the Helsinki-Uusimaa regional council. In November 2022 another Citizens’ Panel was organized in collaboration with the Regional Council of Lapland that focused on the use of Lapland’s forests.
FACTOR conducted surveys and interviews as well as field experiments to gauge the effects of deliberative citizen participation among policymakers and the public at large.
The project was funded by the Academy of Finland (Special funding for system-level research into climate change mitigation and adaptation, 2020).
Work packages
- Work package 1: Identifying obstacles of just and informed climate transitions. Work package leader: Simo Kyllönen, University of Helsinki
- Work package 2: Deliberative mini-publics in regional climate transitions. Work package leader: Heli Saarikoski, Finnish Environment Institute
- Work package 3: Citizen deliberation in production and transmission of climate information and tracking of climate actions. Work package leader: Anna Luomaranta, Finnish Meteorological Institute
- Work package 4: Public uptake and responses to mini-publics. Work package leader: Maija Setälä, University of Turku
More information
- FACTOR’s website
- Leading researcher Heli Saarikoski, firstname.lastname@syke.fi, tel. +358 295 251 589