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The conference took place at Oxford University’s Jesus College on 18th July 2024. It was a collaboration between Iswe Foundation and the university’s Departement of Politics and International Relations.
The readout details the day’s events, including a full agenda and recordings of the sessions. The event opened with a Keynote from Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of the Club of Rome, and concluded with a panel including Gustavo Westmann, Special Advisor for International Affairs (COP30), Presidency of the Republic of Brazil.
The conference brought together more than 150 senior representatives of a wide variety of institutions and civil society organisations, to explore next steps in establishing a permanent global citizens assembly. Iswe Foundation is convening a global array of partners to achieve this.
The first iteration of the permanent global citizens assembly (herein the Assembly) will be launched at the UN Summit of the Future in September and dock at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, with the Brazilian governments support.
The Assembly will have four components: a core assembly of globally representative citizens, community assemblies open to anyone, a broader campaign to engage 10 million people globally by 2030, and a coalition that will support the campaign and implement the Assemblys recommendations. Governance and evaluation of the Assembly will be guided by the Global Citizens Assembly Network (GloCAN). The Assembly will drive five key impacts: institutional actions, citizen actions, local and global solidarity, learning at scale, and inclusion.
Each has its own evaluation metric. Key goals for COP30 are: ● Make COP30 The Peoples COP - support thousands, maybe millions, of people to shape the discourse around COP30, through new translocal civic infrastructure.
● Improve COP30s ability to accelerate climate action and justice - drive mass mobilisation behind global priorities and accelerate locally-led mass citizen action.
● Create an enduring legacy of citizen influence by instituting permanent infrastructure that irrevocably elevates the voice of people in multilateral fora. For more detailed information on the Assembly and associated strategy / theory of change, please watch Rich Wilsons talks in Plenary 2 and the climate breakout, and Aish Machanis talk in Plenary 3. These are starting points for discussion - Iswe is planning ‘innovation calls for inclusive co-design and delivery of all aspects of the Assembly. If you would like to input into how these calls take place, or express interest in participating, please contact Rich.
