RETOOL : Strengthening democratic governance for climate transitions

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.