24.05.2025 "Il Green Deal siamo noi" - Climate Walks a Venezia

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On Saturday 24 May 2025, from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., the first ‘Climate Walk in Venice’ of the cycle of meetings ‘The Green Deal is us’ will be held in Mestre-Venice at Forte Marghera. The theme of this first meeting is ‘The Lagoon and the Venice Lagoon between pollution and climate change’. The ecological walk will start from Room A of Pavilion 53 in Forte Marghera. The cycle of meetings ‘The Green Deal is us’ is organised by Europe Direct Venezia Veneto of the Municipality of Venice, EuCliPA.it - Association of Italian Ambassadors of the European Climate Pact, and CNR-ISP Venice (National Research Council and Institute of Polar Science) for a total of three meetings between May and September 2025 on climate change and the need for a radical transformation of lifestyles, economy and society. 

The May Climate Walk is part of the programme of the Festival of Europe in Venice 5-31 May 2025.

Go to the pages of previous editions of the meetings:

• Series of meetings "il Green Deal siamo noi" 2024
• Series of meetings "il Green Deal siamo noi" 2023
• Series of meetings "il Green Deal siamo noi" 2022
• Series of meeting "il Green Deal siamo noi" 2021

The meeting aims to expose the changes undergone by the lagoon gutter due to anthropogenic pressure and its negative effects, such as pollution from various compounds and industry-related subsidence. This has reduced the capacity of the eaves to absorb tidal expansions and increased high water, aggravated by global climate change. Recent extreme rainfall events have caused significant damage, just think of the Acqua Grande of 12 November 2019, a still open wound in the city of Venice, just as extreme rainfall events that have affected our region in several places are chronicled in recent days. Besides flooding, damage to crops, houses, animals, people, what else is happening in the environment? How is the intensification of these phenomena linked to environmental pollution?  The climate walk will be a moment of dialogue between researchers engaged in the study of the Lagoon and other sensitive environments, and the citizenship, to understand if and how it is possible to build a sustainable future.

The meeting is open to the public.

You can participate by reservation by clicking HERE

Association EuCliPA.it was born in 2022 from the experience of the informal community of Italian ambassadors of the European Climate Pact: following the values of the Pact, is committed to spreading knowledge and awareness about the climate and ecological crisis, starting from local communities, to reach as wide and diverse a public as possible at national level. It also implements initiatives and projects that contribute to addressing the effects of climate change, thanks to the knowledge, passion and commitment of its members, in the belief that "Every little action together can make a difference'.

With the occasion was presented the call for tenders for the International Competition of Communication and Creativity "Climate ChanCe" which reaches its thirteenth edition.  The international competition of communication and creativity for published and unpublished works on the theme of climate change was organized by the Shylock University Theatre Center Association of Venice, In collaboration with Europe Direct Venezia Veneto and the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and under the patronage of  CMCC, WWF ITALIA, LEGAMBIENTE e ISDE ITALIA - MEDICI PER L'AMBIENTE.  The initiative aims to enhance works and projects that offer an effective message on the theme of the climate crisis and the environmental and social aspects related to it. For more information click here

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