What becomes possible when we recognise humanity as a community with a shared destiny, rich in differences, and begin to shape our future together?

Climate change, demographic shifts and widening inequalities are transforming the world we inhabit. These forces meet in the places we call home, shaping people’s opportunities, relationships and freedom to imagine a different life. Our response must connect the future of the planet with everyone’s right to a dignified life and a meaningful part in shaping what comes next.

One Planet, One Humanity opens a space for this collective exploration and invites us to imagine and shape an “eutopian” future together, one grounded in social and environmental justice, alternative to the future being shaped by the dominant capitalist model. Convened by Fondazione MeSSInA, the Sci-Fi Economics Lab and their international partners, four global webinars bring together researchers, practitioners and communities to explore climate and global interdependence, population and environmental limits, societal metamorphosis, and new economic possibilities.

Each conversation connects scientific understanding with experiences rooted in local communities and author Yudhanjaya Wijeratne will bring in relevant speculative thinking from science fiction.

We invite you to bring your experience, questions and hopes to a dialogue about a future we can help create.

PROGRAMME One Planet, One Humanity

(Interpretation available English, Spanish, Italian)

Humanity and the Butterfly: Climate Change and Global Interdependence – 19 November 2026 (15.00 Central European Time)
Main speaker: Filippo Giorgi, Physicist and climatologist, former member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Bureau, which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Discussant: Yıldırım Beyazıt Tuba, University of Ankara and the Convention on Rights in the Mediterranean.
Contributions from territorial initiatives.
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Numbers and Limits: Challenges in the Relationship Between Population and the Environment – 26 November 2026 (15.00 Central European Time)
Main speaker: Massimo Livi Bacci, Demographer, Honorary President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
Discussant: Enrique Gallicchio, Director of the Institute for Human Development at CLAEH University, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Contributions from territorial initiatives.
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Metamorphosis – 11 December 2026 (15.00 Central European Time)
Main speaker: the late Edgar Morin (he recorded his lecture before his passing).
Discussants: Samuel Barco Serrano, SOKIO SDAD. COOP. AND. and Juan de Dios García Serrano, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain.
Contributions from territorial initiatives.
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A new economy – 22 January 2027 (15.00 Central European Time)
Main speakers: Olivier De Schutter, Chair of New Economies for Eradicating Poverty (NEEP), former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights and Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Executive Chair of Earth4All.
Contributions from territorial initiatives.
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We are looking for contributions from territorial initiatives!

We are interested in learning from practical experiences of dealing with these great transformations: if you have such an experience and would be willing to share it, apply here to be a speaker in the webinars.

If you have questions, contact us.

Image credit: Brent Pearson on flickr.com, CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0