"We are the Green Deal" - Climate Walks in Venice 24.05.2025

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 Europe Day in Venice 5-31 May 2025.

• 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