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cord-338933-67e98ok3	Howarth, Candice	Building a Social Mandate for Climate Action: Lessons from COVID-19	2020-07-08		.txt	text/plain	4041	185	51	We discuss how COVID-19 has demonstrated that behaviours can change abruptly, that these changes come at a cost, that we need a 'social mandate' to ensure these changes remain in the long-term, and that science plays an important role in informing this process. There is public support for climate change action, including a low-carbon economic stimulus post-lockdown (Figueres 2020) , but there is a need for a more comprehensive debate, bringing scientific evidence together with public views and values-a key characteristic of deliberative governance activities such as citizen juries and assemblies (Kythreotis et al. We suggest that deliberative engagement mechanisms, such as citizens' assemblies and juries, could be a powerful way to build a social mandate for climate action post-COVID. We suggest that deliberative engagement mechanisms, such as citizens' assemblies and juries, could be a powerful way to build a social mandate for climate action post-COVID.	./cache/cord-338933-67e98ok3.txt	./txt/cord-338933-67e98ok3.txt