Conference programme (short version)

Tuesday, 14th June 2022 

@ Polo Carmignani, piazza de’ Cavalieri – Aula Magna, Aula 3/4 

16:15 – 16:45 Welcome 

Chair: Giuliana Biagioli (President of IRTA-Leonardo) 

Michele Conti – Mayor of Pisa 
Paolo Mancarella – Rector of the Università di Pisa 
Luca Spataro – Direttore del Dipartimento di Economia e management 

16:45 – 18:00 Plenary 1 – Opening lectures 

Chair: Dan O’Neill (President of the European Society for Ecological Economics) 

Prologue: Zeno’s paradox for Dummies

Enrico Moriconi (Università di Pisa) 

Keynote lecture: Natura facit saltum: Is society ready to take a leap too? Is economics? 

Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and University of Siena) 

18:00 – 18:15 Welcome from the L.O.C. 
18:15 – 19:00 Walk to Stazione Leopolda 
19:00 – 20:00 Cocktail @ Stazione Leopolda 
20:30 Concert – Bei Legami Ensemble: “Vivaldi vs Piazzolla” @Giardino Scotto

Wednesday, 15th June 2022

08:45 – 13:00 Lightning talks, “Lottery” and Student Prize presentations (5 parallel sessions @DEM) 
14:15 – 18:00 Traditional presentations @Polo Piagge
18:00 – 19:00 Bus to Marina di Pisa for dinner guests
20:00 – 23:00 Social Dinner @“The Big Fish” 

Thursday, 16th June 2022 

08:45 – 10:45 Plenary 2 – The future of energy

@DEM – Eco A and C 

Chair: Janne Mercedes Prinsen (NMBU) 

Nuclear Fusion 

Niek Lopes Cardozo (Eindhoven University of Technology) 

Abundant (and possibly cheap) energy. Would it be ‘good news’? 

Mario Giampietro (Universitat Autonoma Barcelona) 
Emilio Padoa Schioppa (Università di Milano – Bicocca) 

Energy sufficiency 

Yamina Sahed (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III) 

11:15 – 12:45 ESEE general meeting @ DEM – ECO 5
14:15 – 17:00 Traditional presentations @ Polo Piagge
17:00 – 19:00 Plenary 3 – Politics, science and civil society: Question time!  @ Polo Piagge – Aula CONV

Chair: Giuliano Marrucci 

Scientific background: Aldo Femia
Politicians: Giuseppe Conte*, Phillippe Lamberts*, Enrico Letta*, Patty L’Abbate, Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis, Marie Toussaint
Civil society: Jasmine Cristallo, Giorgio De Girolamo, Ruth Dinslage, Maddalena Lamura, Giovanni Moro, Claudia Mazzanti and some of her pupils, Giovanni Mori, Patrizia Alma Pacini, Ferdinando Pezzopane
(*) Remote participation 


Friday, 17th June 2022 

@ DEM – Eco A and Eco C 

08:45 – 09:45 Plenary 4 – The art of communication 

Chair: Tiziano Distefano 

Giuseppe Pellegrini (Observa Science Society)  
Edwige Pezzulli (INAF) 
Francesco Suman (Il BO Live – Università di Padova)
Sofia Belardinelli (Il BO Live – Università di Padova) 
Marta Tuninetti (Politecnico di Torino – DIATI) 
Lucia Muñoz Sueiro (ICTA) 

10:00 – 10:45 Plenary 5 – Sustainable banking for ecological transition: lessons and experience from pioneers  
(Jointly organised with aGreeenfin)

Chair: Leonardo Becchetti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) 

Anna Fasano represented by Ugo Biggeri (Banca Etica – remote speech) 
Adriana Kocornik-Mina (Global Alliance for Banking on Values) 

11:15 – 12:45 Lottery parallels and the following two roundtables  
The art of communication (@ DEM – Eco 5) 
Sustainable Finance: Key challenges for ecological transition (@ DEM – Eco A)
(Jointly organised with aGreeenfin)

Laura Berry (Shareholders for Change) 
Francesco Bicciato (Secretary General of ITASIF) 
Nick Robins (London School of Economics) 
Victor van Hoorn (former Executive Director of Eurosif) (remote participation) 

14:15 – 15:00 Lottery parallels 
15:15 – 16:00 Plenary 6 – Closing Keynote Lecture: Land, water, air and freedom: world movements for environmental justice 

Chair: Clive Spash (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business) 

Joan Martínez Alier (Universitat Autonoma Barcelona) 

16:00 – 17:15 Final roundtable: 50 years after “Limits to growth”, the UN Stockholm conference, Georgescu, … 

Chair: Roldan Muradian 

Nicholas Ashford (MIT) 
Giuliana Biagioli (Leonardo-IRTA) 
Kozo Mayumi (KCGI) 
Dan O’Neill (University of Leeds) 

17:15 – 17:45 Closing ceremony and best student prize 

Marco Raugi (Unipi delegate to sustainability) (remote participation)
Alessandra Nardini (Regione Toscana Councillor)  

18:00 – 20:30 Games for sustainability @ Stazione Leopolda