Increasing Polarization Threatens Climate Transformations

Work Package 1 of the Mistra Environmental Communication programme investigates cooperation and dialogue in governance for sustainability. In a new op-ed, authors Martin Westin and Robert Österbergh argues that a decreasing will to consensus makes work on climate transformations harder.

Dialogues are, according to the authors, crucially about a will to enlightened exchanges where perspectives and arguements are tested against each other with the goal of reaching consensus or clarifying differences. Due to the scale and broad impact of climate transformations, functioning dialogues are of particular importance.

Read the op-ed here at Aktuell Hållbarhet magazine (in Swedish).