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Why do you need a people's assembly to research and recommend interventions when there are already countless existing institutions, academics, ngo's that already have sufficient knowledge and recommendations that could do this ?
Because people may be more likely to accept a plan that they feel had input from people just like them. Not from the usual experts.
We largely know what we need to do. The main work is getting people to agree to drastic changes in lifestyle, and not to penalise political parties that say they will enact these things, through the ballot box.
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Why do you need a people's assembly to research and recommend interventions when there are already countless existing institutions, academics, ngo's that already have sufficient knowledge and recommendations that could do this ? Plenty of paths forwards have already been proposed, why add in an extra layer of bureaucracy, if you have got government to the point of agreeing a timeline, the how will be fairly straightforwards to identify