Periodic Reporting for period 1 - RETOOL (Strengthening democratic governance for climate transitions)
Période du rapport: 2024-02-01 au 2025-07-31
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.
The RETOOL consortium brings together a variety of social science and humanities perspectives, and is interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary by design. Our disciplinary expertise includes political science, political economy, public administration, environmental law, European studies, deliberative democracy, political sociology, contemporary history, and geography. Researchers in the consortium have expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research and across a wide range of methods, including public opinion research, elite interviews, participant observation, and archival research, among others.
The RETOOL consortium brings together a variety of social science and humanities perspectives, and is interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary by design. Our disciplinary expertise includes political science, political economy, public administration, environmental law, European studies, deliberative democracy, political sociology, contemporary history, and geography. Researchers in the consortium have expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research and across a wide range of methods, including public opinion research, elite interviews, participant observation, and archival research, among others.
Progress overall on the project during the first reporting period has been very good and as planned. The underpinning work within WP2 (Analytical and empirical underpinnings) has been completed satisfactorily, and is guiding our work under the four main empirical WPs (WP3 – WP6). Across WP3–WP6 our empirical research has progressed well and is at varying levels of development in accordance with the project plan.
All deliverables due in the first reporting period have been delivered according to schedule, and the project is on track to meet deadlines for deliverables in the second reporting period.
All deliverables due in the first reporting period have been delivered according to schedule, and the project is on track to meet deadlines for deliverables in the second reporting period.
The project results delivered to date stem primarily from WP2. These include a bespoke project analytical framework (D2.1) a RETOOL Climate Democracy Dataset (M2.1) an analysis of lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis responses (D2.2) and a study examining climate mitigation scenarios and climate democracy (D2.3). In addition, WP6 delivered a study of lessons to be learned from environmental movements of the past (D6.1). All of these project results have advanced the state of the art in their respective fields.