Strengthening democratic governance for climate transitions

重组项目的总体目标是增进我们对如何应对气候变化的双重挑战的理解，即在加强和振兴民主治理的同时应对这一迫切需要的挑战。该项目有四个主要目标：(1)通过开发新的分析框架和创建新的经验基础，包括重要的新的开放获取数据集，加深我们对民主治理与气候必要性之间关系的理解；(2)了解欧洲各地的各种民主机构如何应对气候挑战，包括从历史中吸取教训和研究新的创新民主做法；(3)通过发展和综合关于气候民主的新知识和见解，并以一系列影响深远的形式介绍这些知识和见解，为振兴欧洲的民主治理作出贡献；以及(4)作为关于气候民主创新的学术研究与政策制定者和实践者以及民间社会和广大公众之间的桥梁。与来自西欧(爱尔兰、英国、比利时、奥地利)、北欧(芬兰)、东欧(爱沙尼亚)和南欧(意大利、希腊)的合作伙伴合作，将政治学、政治社会学、协商民主、环境法、欧洲研究和公共行政方面的专业知识结合起来。该联盟包括一个民主实践者基金会，所有伙伴都与实践者和民间社会网络密切相关，并参与实际活动。重组将由一个成熟、稳定的财团进行，该财团拥有丰富的合作经验，我们的九个合作伙伴中有六个是欧盟资助的Jean Monnet Network GreenDeal-Net的核心成员。

The overall goal of the RETOOL project is to advance our understanding of how to address the twin challenges of responding to the climate imperative while strengthening and reinvigorating democratic governance. The project has four overarching objectives: (i) To deepen our understanding of the relationship between democratic governance and the climate imperative by developing a novel analytical framework and creating new empirical underpinnings, including important new open-access datasets; (ii) To understand how a variety of democratic institutions across Europe are responding to the climate challenge, including learning lessons from history and studying new and innovative democratic practices; (iii) To contribute to reinvigorating democratic governance in Europe by developing and synthesising new knowledge and insights on climate democracy, and presenting them in a range of high-impact formats; and (iv) To serve as a bridge between academic research on climate democracy innovations and policymakers and practitioners, as well as civil society and the wider public. RETOOL bringstogether an international and interdisciplinary consortium, with partnersfrom Western Europe (Ireland, UK, Belgium, Austria), Northern Europe (Finland), Eastern Europe (Estonia), and Southern Europe (Italy, Greece), combining expertise in political science, political sociology, deliberative democracy, environmental law, European studies, and public administration. The consortium includes a democracy practitioner foundation (DDF), and all partners are closely associated with practitioner and civil society networks and involved in hands-on activities. RETOOL will be undertaken by a mature,settled consortium that hassignificant experience of working together, with six of our nine partners core members of the EU-funded Jean Monnet Network GreenDeal-NET.