Who Are the Citizens of the French Convention for Climate?

Adrien Fabre, Bénédicte Apouey, Thomas Douenne, Jean-Michel Fourniau (), Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet (), Jean-François Laslier and Solène Tournus ()
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Thomas Douenne: UvA - University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam
Jean-Michel Fourniau: AME-DEST - Dynamiques Economiques et Sociales des Transports - Université Gustave Eiffel
Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet: CIRED - Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AgroParisTech - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Solène Tournus: MSHPN - Maison des sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

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Abstract: We conduct surveys on both participants in the French Citizens Convention for Climate (CCC) and the general public. By comparing the answers of the randomly drawn citizens with those of the general population on identical questions, we assess the representativity of the CCC, study the evolution of the citizens' opinions, and document the perceptions of the CCC. The CCC appeared broadly representative of the French population. Although, the CCC's Citizens seemed to have been somewhat more favorable to climate policies than the general population at the start, a majority support was found for all proposed measures but one. Despite our findings that the CCC correctly represented the population, we document widespread ignorance and mistrust towards the CCC, including a largely shared belief that it was not representative.

Keywords: Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat; Climate change; Sortition; Citizens Assembly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06
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