This article investigates how climate activists engage in building trust in public debates and local political conflicts over green transition. The article applies the empirically grounded concept of “climate translators” to study the challenges of intermediary trust-building by both independent climate activists and institutionally embedded activists who aim to stimulate climate policy change at the local level. In Denmark, municipalities endorse activists as climate translators to promote civic participation and deliberation. In Germany, activists have developed more conflict-oriented translation models based on direct-democratic campaigns and advocacy work outside institutions. We discuss these varied strategies of trust-building as they emerged in different contexts.

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“气候翻译者”在绿色转型中建立信任和地方民主合作：丹麦和德国

本文探讨了气候活动家如何在绿色转型的公共辩论和当地政治冲突中建立信任。本文应用“气候翻译者”这一基于经验的概念来研究独立气候活动家和旨在刺激地方气候政策变化的制度化活动家建立中介信任所面临的挑战。在丹麦，市政当局认可活动家作为气候翻译者，以促进公民参与和审议。在德国，活动人士基于直接民主运动和机构外部的宣传工作，开发了更多以冲突为导向的翻译模式。我们讨论在不同背景下出现的这些不同的建立信任策略。