About — Korea Climate Citizens' Assembly Moderator Archive
What This Site Is
This site is the open archive of an individual moderator working with Korea's first national Climate Citizens' Assembly (2026) — a body of 200 members (20 planning + 180 deliberating) convened to learn, deliberate, and recommend national climate policy.
The Assembly is the world's first permanent national-level climate deliberative body, established under Article 19-2 of Korea's Framework Act on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth in Response to the Climate Crisis (Carbon Neutrality Framework Act). It launched on 16 May 2026.
Why This Exists
Three problems motivated this archive:
- The "one-off public forum" problem. Citizens invest significant time crafting recommendations, but what happens to those recommendations afterward — and what the next cohort of citizens should reference — is often opaque.
- International invisibility of the Korean model. The UK, Ireland, and France climate assemblies are well-documented in English-language research. The Korean model has, until now, no primary English-language reference material. OECD, UNFCCC, and international researchers have had no citable source for Korea's approach.
- Privatization of moderator know-how. How facilitators run small-group deliberation, respond to citizen questions, and synthesize agendas tends to live only in individual moderators' heads.
This archive is one individual's attempt to address all three at once — open, citable, multilingual, durable.
What You'll Find
- 15 agenda wiki pages — Korean context, international comparisons, and open questions for each topic under deliberation
- Session timeline — chronological record of lectures, deliberations, and recommendation development
- Moderator's brief — facilitation methodology, citizen response patterns, checklists
- Ministry roles matrix — how 12 Korean ministries divide mitigation and adaptation responsibilities
- Comparative analyses — Gyeonggi Climate Citizens' Assembly (province-level precedent), Shin-Kori 5/6 deliberative poll (2017), UK, Ireland, France
- 5 languages — Korean (source) + English + Japanese + Chinese + Spanish
Who Made This
A single moderator participating in Korea's Climate Citizens' Assembly. This is a private individual's work and is not an official publication of any Korean government body, political party, or corporation.
Multilingual Policy — Author-Time Generation
All English, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish pages on this wiki are written and reviewed by the moderator at authoring time with LLM assistance — not post-build machine translation. Trust labels indicate verification depth:
- 🟢
author-verified— Reviewed directly by the moderator (Korean and English baseline) - 🔵
reviewed— LLM-assisted with moderator's general review (Japanese, Chinese, Spanish initial pages) - 🟢
native-verified— Approved by a native-speaker volunteer reviewer (gradually accumulating)
How to Cite
All content is released under CC BY-SA 4.0. You are free to quote, translate, redistribute, and adapt with attribution under the same license. Suggested citation:
Korea Climate Assembly Wiki. (2026). [Page title]. Retrieved from https://climate-assembly.org/[lang]/[path]
Tech Stack (for the technically curious)
- Site generator: Astro 5 — static site generation
- Hosting: Cloudflare Pages — free tier, global CDN
- Source: Open source on GitHub
- License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Annual running cost is approximately the price of a domain name (≈ USD 24/year). The architecture is designed for 20+ years of low-maintenance operation.
Disclaimer
- This is an individual moderator's working archive, not an official publication of the Korean government or the Presidential Committee on National Climate Crisis Response.
- Recommendations of the Climate Citizens' Assembly are advisory; they are submitted to the Committee for review and are not, in themselves, government policy.
- Please verify all facts against primary sources. If you find a factual error, please open an issue on GitHub.
How to Contact
For corrections, native-speaker translation volunteering, or research collaboration: please use GitHub Issues on the source repository.