06.06.2022 "Adapting": Password for Venice and for Europe

Monday 6th of June at 17.30 it was held the first event of the cycle "We are the European Green Deal. Instruments for an environmental culture" in collaboration with Shylock CUT University Theathre Center of Venice.

In this first meeting with the title "Adapting" Password for Venice and for Europe, intervened: 

• Marco Merola, journalist project Adaptation.it, "Adapting to Climate Change: Veneto, Italy, Europe" 
• Paolo Cagnan, codirector La Nuova Venezia, "Comunicating the Climate Challenge"
• Giovanni Pelizzato, Bookstore La Toletta, "The Resilient Cultural Enterprise"
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The popularization of environmental problems has gained more space and visibility in recent years than in the past. In the meantime, however, the negative signals and evolutionary processes of extreme climatic phenomena have also become more acute, with respect to which we must respond with urgent strategic plans.

With climate change, it is thus destined to change our dictionary to some extent as well, making the word "adaptation" a password without which it may not be possible to cope with a new way of life with which we are being called upon to deal.

The guests at the event are active in all these areas, and each of them brings a testimony that helps to compose, at least in part, a puzzle that is useful for understanding the process of responding to the changes in which we are inevitably involved in our territory and at the national and European level.

Marco Merola is in charge of the adaptation.it project, which aims to document and disseminate the adaptation experiences surveyed region by region in our country, and he has just finished editing a rich webdoc on Veneto, with the possibility of comparing the reality of our region with other European geographical areas. The Veneto newspapers of the GEDI group have opted in the past year to give ample space to in-depth investigations on the tools of prevention and adaptation in regional and local contexts with respect to extreme environmental phenomena. These are decisions made by newspaper editors who are aware of the challenges they face, and we invited Paolo Cagnan to tell us about this editorial choice. Then among the citizens there are those who historically occupy entrepreneurial and social roles that allow us to have the pulse of the need and capacity for resilience of a precious and at the same time difficult reality such as Venice, where water has always been a constant element of coexistence or conflict and investments survive in a scenario of continuous risk. Venice's oldest bookstore, La Toletta, talks about its experience through owner Giovanni Pelizzato, between pandemic and new user services.

PRESS REVIEW:

• 01.06.2022 Agenparl.eu "Lunedì all'Ateneo Veneto l'incontro "Adattamento": password per Venezia e l'Europa" 
• 04.06.2022 La Nuova di Venezia e Mestre "Cambiamento Climatico e cultura ambientale"

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