Planet Aqua, Planet Peace
Venice, 22 April, 2026—Venice Climate Week today announces the first keynote speakers confirmed for its 2026 edition, returning to Venice from June 3 to 8 with an expanded international scope and a strengthened strategic vision. Titled Planet Aqua, Planet Peace, the second edition puts forward a clear and ambitious statement: rethinking the future of cities […]
Planet Aqua City Awards
In Venice, water is not merely a feature of the landscape. It defines the way people live, move, and envision the future. The city’s existence has always depended on a careful balance, where resilience and vulnerability coexist. Here, the climate crisis is neither abstract nor distant. It is immediate, visible, and demands urgent attention. This […]
Marevivo Meets Rifkin: The Future of the Planet Starts with the Oceans
Protecting the ocean begins with the vision and commitment of those who defend it every day. At the floating headquarters of Marevivo Foundation, President Rosalba Giugni hosted a meeting dedicated to the vital role of water and oceans for the planet’s future, together with economist Jeremy Rifkin, author of the book Planet Aqua During the […]
Jeremy Rifkin in Rome
On 2nd of March, in the Aula Giulio Cesare at Capitoline Hill, Jeremy Rifkin brought the Planet Aqua paradigm back to the center of public debate: water not as a resource to be exploited, but as a common good shaping development, security, and quality of life. Together with Mayor Roberto Gualtieri, representatives of water cities, […]
IUAV: Future Earth
Opening by Luca Mercalli: “It’s true that the climate has always changed — in 1709, the Venetian lagoon froze. We have always been shaped by the climate, even if today the famine that might have followed an event like the one that occurred in the summer of 2002 no longer frightens us.” The real question […]
Ca’ Foscari Venice: Life Economy
The third day of Venice Climate Week took place today at the Silvio Trentin Lecture Hall of Ca’ Foscari, with a crucial focus on the “Life Economy” and the scientific, political, and ethical implications of global climate change. Anna Pirani, a scientist from the CMCC and author of IPCC reports, opened the session by reflecting […]
The Alliance of Water Cities
Considering that Venice has long been recognized as an urban model for adapting to a water-based world, Considering that our planetary hydrosphere, which sustains all life on Earth, is being reconstituted in the wake of global warming, triggering record winter snowfalls, torrential spring floods, devastating summer heatwaves, wildfires, and deadly autumn hurricanes that devastate ecosystems, […]
Ocean Space, Venice: Science Dialogues with the Future
The second day of Venice Climate Week opened this morning at Ocean Space with an intense and well-attended meeting, bringing together scientists, researchers, and young people engaged in the fight against the climate crisis. This was a valuable opportunity for dialogue in a historic moment where science is called not only to understand change but […]
VCW25 Day One
“We have three generations to save the world: Generation Z, Generation Alpha, and Generation Beta. Only you can create a new economic system.” With these words, addressed to ten PhD students present at the meeting at the new Sea Beyond Ocean Literacy Space in San Servolo, renowned American economist Jeremy Rifkin launched a powerful call […]
The official program for Venice Climate Week has launched
Six days, seven locations, over twenty cultural and scientific partners, and nearly a hundred international speakers: from June 3 to 8, 2025, the first edition of Venice Climate Week will take place, conceived and directed by Riccardo Luna in collaboration with the Future Food Institute, in conjunction with the World Environment and Oceans Days. A […]