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Resources

Read the latest outputs from Climate Citizens:

Reports & briefings

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 
 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report
What the public think about advertising high-carbon products and services: Citizens’ jury and public polling evidence from the UK.
March 2025. Climate Citizens Report
Getting to Net Zero: Priorities for public engagement in climate policy.
November 2024. Climate Citizens Report.
Managing adverts for high carbon products and services. Findings form a citizen’s jury and national polling. 
June 2024. Climate Citizens Report.
The messy politics of local climate assemblies.
Lewis, P., Ainscough, J., Coxcoon. R., Willis, R. 2023. June 2023
How are people understood in energy and climate governance?.
Willis, R., 12/102/2022
Addressing emissions from owner-occupied homes: Findings of a citizens’ panel on home energy decarbonisation.
Ainscough, J., Willis, R., 21/09/2022
The role of deliberative public engagement in climate policy development: A report for the Climate Change Committee.
Ainscough, J., Willis, R., 21/09/2022
The fight for a mandate for net zero.
Ainscough, J., Willis, R., 13/02/2022 In: Progressive Review. 1-4 p.
A Social Contract for the Climate Crisis.
Rebecca Willis, R., 18/08/2020 in: IPPR Progressive Review27(2),p.156-164

Journal articles

Energy sufficiency, space temperature and public policy, Morley, J., Buildings & Cities, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, p110–125 (2026) DOI: 10.5334/bc.653

Why the promise of green jobs has limited resonance: Industrial attachments in 'net zero' transitions, Lewis, P., Geoforum, Volume 172, (2026) ISSN 0016-7185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104579.


Fluid hope in a climate emergency: Lessons from an English citizens’ jury. Lewis, P. Environmental Politics, 35(1), 68–89 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2025.2522516

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2025.2522516?scroll=top&needAccess=true#abstract

Citizen deliberation in Net Zero governance: learning lessons and looking forward, Ainscough, J., Killeen, L., Lewis, P., Shepherd, A. & Willis, R., Journal of the British Academy, 13(1) (2025): a13 https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/013.a13

Is there a public mandate for restricting advertising of high-carbon products and services?: Citizens’ jury and public polling evidence from the UK, Ainscough, J., Willis R., PLOS Clim 4(9) (2025): e0000599. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000599


From stealth to pragmatism: A telling shift in UK politicians’ views on climate action, Westlake, S., Willis, R., Climatic Change 178, 162 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-025-03987-4


Citizens and specialist co-design of energy policy: the case of home energy decarbonization in the UK, Willis, R., Ainscough, J., Bryant, P., Goold, L., Livermore, M., Tosal, C., Environmental Science and Policy (2024): 103706 

Re-attaching to coal in a Climate Emergency: The case of the Whitehaven mine. Lewis, P., Environment and Planning E: Nature and Spaces (2024): 1821-1843.

The messy politics of local climate assemblies. Lewis, P., Ainscough, J., Coxcoon. R., Willis, R., Climate Change (2023): 176:76.

Deliberative democracy and the climate crisis. Willis, R., Curato, N., Smith, G. WIREs Climate Change (2022) e759. 

Taking deliberative research online: Lessons from four case studies. Willis, R., Yuille, A., Bryant, P., McLaren, D., Markusson, N., Qualitative Research (2021) 1-19 p.

Attractions of delay: Using deliberative engagement to investigate the political and strategic impacts of greenhouse gas removal technologies. McLaren, D., Willis, R., Szerszynski, B., Tyfield, D., Markusson, N., Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2021) 1-22 p.

Building a Social Mandate for Climate Action: Lessons from COVID-19. Howarth, C., Bryant, P., Corner, A., Fankhauser, S., Gouldson, A., Whitmarsh, L., Willis, R., Environmental and Resource Economics (2020) 76, p. 1107-1115.

Social tipping intervention strategies for rapid decarbonization need to consider how change happens.  Smith, S., Christie, I., Willis, R., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2020) 117, 20, 2p.

Reports & Briefings

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

What climate policies do the public want? A review of recommendations from UK citizens’ assemblies and juries. 

 May 2025. Climate Citizens Report

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Books

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Too Hot to Handle? The democratic challenge of climate change

Rebecca Willis, Bristol University Press, March 2020

Scientists are clear that urgent action is needed on climate change, and world leaders agree. Yet climate issues barely trouble domestic politics. This book explores a central dilemma of the climate crisis: science demands urgency; politics turns the other cheek. Is it possible to hope for a democratic solution to climate change?

Based on interviews with leading politicians and activists, and the author’s twenty years on the frontline of climate politics, this book explores why climate is such a challenge for political systems, even when policy solutions exist. It argues that more democracy, not less, is needed to tackle the climate crisis, and suggests practical ways forward.

Available here

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