Democracy

FDSD’s work on the future of democracy in the face of climate change is grounded in two hypotheses:
- First, that climate change will impact on democracy, when democracy is understood as a political system (see Paper Two). Democracy itself could even be threatened by climate disruption and related emergencies in some parts of the world if suitable mitigation and adaptation strategies are not adopted as soon as possible (as discussed later in this paper).

The three scenarios are clearly larger than the sum of their parts, as no one expert in the group could have drawn them as they are on his own. Yet participants could find a trace of their thinking reflected throughout the complex intellectual mosaic incorporated into the final product.