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Soon you will be able to register here for the Citizens’ Assembly for a greener city with more access for everyone.

To register, you must consent to the City of Gothenburg processing your personal data. By processing, we mean that we store the information you provide in order to manage your registration. The information you submit will be used to contact you if you are selected to participate, and also to enable us to create a participant group that reflects the population of Gothenburg as closely as possible. We also store the information to understand the level of representation among participants at each meeting.

If you are offered a place in the Citizens’ Assembly and accept it, your data will be stored until the assembly has concluded, but no later than 31 May 2026. If you are not offered a place, your data will be stored until the allocation process is completed, but no later than 16 March 2026. After that, your data will be deleted.

A Citizens’ Assembly for a greener city with more access for everyone

Be part of the effort to achieve the City’s environment and climate goals by 2030

The theme for the City of Gothenburg Citizens’ Assembly is ways to create a greener and more accessible city for everyone.

Gothenburg is growing, which means that there are more people sharing its streets and squares. Many needs have to coexist within those spaces: daily life and social venues, greenery, trade, service and different ways of travelling. We are also faced with the challenge of making the City ecologically sustainable and climate-neutral by 2030. If we’re going to succeed, we need to start the transition now.

The City of Gothenburg has high ambitions on climate and environment issues. Read here about the City’s Environment and Climate Programme 2021-2030:   Göteborgs Stads miljö- och klimatprogram 2021-2030 (External link, in Swedish)

Aim

The Citizens’ Assembly will be held in the autumn of 2025 and spring of 2026. A representative group of local residents will work together to make recommendations to the politicians to support achieving the City’s environment and climate goals by 2030.

The Citizen’s Assembly, and the development of the process of it, was initiated by the City Council.

Read more here about how you can engage with the City’s work: Så kan du påverka och vara delaktig (External link, in Swedish)

Organisation

50 people will meet on four Saturdays.

The Citizens’ Assembly will meet on the following dates and times:

Saturday, 21 February
Saturday, 14 March
Saturday, 18 April
Saturday, 9 May

All meetings take place from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Each meeting lasts 7 hours.

The first two meetings will provide opportunities for the members to get to know each other.  They will also get a chance to get the background knowledge they need to develop their recommendations.

During the second meeting the Assembly members will begin looking at recommendations they would like to work with and develop together.

Politicians from the Urban Environment Committee will be present at the first and last meetings, to officially open the Assembly in the beginning and to receive the recommendations at the last meeting.

External observers will also be present, to monitor how the process and discussions proceed.

Composition

A total of 12,000 people between the ages of 16 and 90, from all parts of Gothenburg, will be invited to the Citizens’ Assembly. All of those invited can register their interest in participating as Assembly members in a form where they will be asked to provide information about their age, sex, level of education and income level, among other things. A random, but representative selection will be drawn from those who have registered interest and 50 individuals will be selected to become members of the Citizens’ Assembly. The final make up of the Assembly is intended to be a reflection of the community of Gothenburg as a whole. The aim is to also include resident groups who rarely engage in other activities organised by the City of Gothenburg.

Question for the Citizens’ Assembly

How do you think we should prioritise the space in Gothenburg’s streets and squares – between city life, greenery and traffic?

Organiser

The City of Gothenburg with support from Digidem Lab

Topics

Environment and climate issues, urban development

Who will participate

In addition to the Assembly members there will also be politicians, administrators, experts on public engagement and observers present during the some or all of the meetings. 

What will be decided

The Citizens’ Assembly will make recommendations that will be received by the politicians on the Urban Environment Committee.