Collective, deliberative, cooperative: the path to a climate-neutral and fully recovered European Union depends on the input and the buy-in of its citizens. This is one of the tenets of the European Green Deal, the wide-ranging blueprint and roadmap for the Union to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Putting citizens at the center of the debate around the EU's future was also the main goal of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE).
This report contains the proceedings and results of two participatory initiatives in the context of the CoFoE. Both projects run between November 2021 and March 2022 and engaged citizens in EU climate action and explored their views and demands for the climate future of Europe
The two projects are the :Peer Parliaments of the European Climate Pact, managed by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA); and Citizens’ Panels of the support action under the Green Deal Call for R&I ‘Support to the engagement of European Citizens in the transition to the European Green Deal (EGD)’, led by the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD).