This report is a synthesis of the debate carried out with Dr. Rob Hopkins and Ana Huertas in the conference series “Facing climate change” organised by Catalunya Europa Foundation in the context of the Re-City project. This session, entitled "A new society for a new climate", consisted of a public lecture, a seminar with participants from the academic sector of Catalonia and a lunch-debate that brought together personalities from the economic, social, political and local business sectors.