nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210729-020225-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210728s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210729-020225-0 doi eng 342 23 Girard, Charles Author aut Lessons from the French Citizens’ Climate Convention On the role and legitimacy of citizens’ assemblies Girard, Charles Verfassungsblog 2021-07-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On July 6, the French Prime Minister announced that the government was abandoning the bill to enshrine in the Constitution the preservation of the environment. He invoked the Senate's inertia to justify renouncing the bill, which needed to be adopted in the same terms by the two houses of parliament. The climate referendum that had been announced by the President of the Republic in December 2020 was thus abandoned. The decision was not a surprise, as many doubted the political feasibility or the actual willingness to implement it. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 citizens assembly climate change Climate Convention France yellow vests Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/lessons-from-the-french-citizens-climate-convention/ raw object