Global Citizens’ Assembly on Food systems
From August 2025
Convener: Iswe Foundation, in collaboration with other entities
Designed to give communities around the world a voice for a sustainable future for planet Earth, the Global Citizens’ Assembly 2026 is a new initiative that builds on the lessons learned from the Global Assembly 2021 on the climate and ecological crisis.
The Global Citizen Assembly, which is presented at COP30 in Brazil in November 2025, has four components (the 4 Cs):
– Community Assemblies that allow the participation of anyone on the planet (supported by the Assemblis platform);
– a Civic Assembly that is a snapshot of the world’s population (a global mini-public), selected through a global lottery that allows anyone to be selected;
– Campaign and culture to increase the Assembly’s visibility and influence;
– Coalition of supporting institutions, organizations, movements and nation states.
Deliberativa is contributing to the design and implementation of the Civic Assembly, which in 2026 will bring together a group of 105 citizens selected through a civic lottery specifically designed to represent the planet’s population. During the fall of 2025, the main work is focused on formulating the mandate to which the Civic Assembly will respond, and on generating the content that will form the basis for deliberation.
Civic Assembly Dates: January 17 – March 14, 2026
Media appearances:
- Le Monde, 20/11/2025, Une assemblée citoyenne mondiale sur le climat pour redonner de la « crédibilité » aux COP
Image: map of the 105 people who are members of the Assembly. To find them, a lottery algorithm was run in September 2025 to pick random points on the world map. This algorithm uses a NASA database to ensure everyone in the world has a near-equal chance of being selected, subject to maximum quotas for countries and UN regions, a preference for diversity by including at least 60 countries, and a slightly higher allowance for people in the most climate-vulnerable countries.
