ABSTRACT
In this interview, Robert Huber analyses the connection between populism and climate change, with a focus on possible strategies to engage citizens in the decision-making process. Since effective climate policy is futile without citizen inclusion, Huber suggests that citizen assemblies could be one instrument to make climate policy more acceptable. Moreover, he points out that to understand what drives citizens’ attitudes towards climate change we need to disentangle populism and ideology, because it is the distrust of the elites that should drive climate scepticism irrespective of – and additional to – ideology. Finally, Huber claims that we need more research to understand what populist parties and their voters think about climate change and the extent to which they are an obstacle to far-reaching climate policy.
