![]() ![]() The transformations needed have to arise from new types of consultation and democratic processes that take stock of the changes already taking place as a result of climate transitions. ![]() There is no template available, nor should there be. ![]() With natural, financial, economic, and political shocks testing the bounds of democratic resilience, trust between citizens and the state needs to be reinvented along with a new paradigm proposition for political economies fit for an age of climate disruptions. The stakes are nothing short of a societal transformation for which alternative visions are needed and have yet to come about. But democratic reflections on the climate transition have generally been limited in scope and ambition, failing to rethink governance, economics, and social contracts beyond the single issue of energy substitution. States have resorted to ad hoc mechanisms, such as climate assemblies, to support climate transitions-with relative success. Spurred by the rising costs of oil extraction and the urgency of decarbonization, volatile energy prices are becoming more common and social contracts increasingly stand on unstable ground. The climate transition is challenging the relationship between economics and politics in liberal democracies. ![]()
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