Planetizing Citizenship

How might we expand definitions of human and citizenship rights to ensure access within and across nations to clean water, nutritious food, safe homes, and functioning ecosystems?

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What is the "rights to nature" movement?

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How do we ensure equitable access to social and environmental resources (clean air and water, a safe place to call home, functioning ecosystems for all?

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We are living through a major transition in our evolution: with the development of artificial intelligence and discoveries in genetics, unprecedented challenges arise for the human species. How can we ensure that, in this rapidly changing world, education and research adapt quickly enough?

Planetizing Citizenship investigates how climate change is forcing more and more human and non-human migration, biodiversity loss, and mass species extinctions. These human-induced crises cannot be solved within the boundary confines of modern nation-states, requiring planetary- scale unity and cooperation that must resituate humans as members of a shared planet. In this UNESCO BRIDGES series of Humanities Labs, students will investigate how we may shift our perspectives from citizenship to planetizenship in order to undo existing hierarchies and borders, engaging across gender, age, class, race, ability, species, machines, and matter, in order to collectively remake our planetary futures. We will reimagine how the world's planetary citizens will innovate new science, arts, ideas, policies, and laws to ensure the survival of the planet and people.

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Planetizing Citizenship in the News

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Climate Migration: An Impending Global Challenge

Is the world ready for mass migration due to climate change?