Venice Climate Week
3-8 June 2026 | Venice
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CMCC Foundation is a partner of the Venice Climate Week, taking place in Venice from 3 to 8 June 2026.
Conceived and curated by Riccardo Luna, Venice Climate Week is an international forum featuring a week of high-level dialogues and immersive experiences that bring together institutions, experts, and communities to reclaim leadership and accelerate systemic change.
Titled Planet Aqua, Planet Peace, the second edition delivers a clear and ambitious vision: reimagining the future of cities and the planet through the lens of water. No longer viewed solely as a symbol of crisis, water is presented as a defining infrastructure of the 21st century, a generative force to design with and a critical perspective through which to rethink urban systems, economies, governance models, and planetary resilience.
From coastal cities to food systems, from global governance to technological innovation, water emerges as a key to understanding the transformations shaping our time.
CMCC scientists will take part in the event to showcase cutting-edge climate research and policy insights, joining leading national and international experts in a city that embodies both heritage and resilience, at a time when the window for meaningful action is rapidly narrowing.
Discover and meet CMCC’s leadership and researchers participating in Venice Climate Week.
OPENING | 3 June 2026, h. 15:00 CEST, Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Speakers:
Paolo D’Aprile, Sustainability Leader, Deloitte Central Mediterranean
Massimo Tavoni, Director, RFF-CMCC, Politecnico di Milano
Net Positive Futures & State of the Water | 5 June 2026, h. 10:15, IUAV University of Venice
DAI DATI CLIMATICI ALL’AZIONE URBANA: SUPPORTARE LE CITTÀ NELL’ADATTAMENTO E NELLA RESILIENZA
Speaker: Paola Mercogliano, Principal Scientist at the CMCC Foundation
Net Positive Futures & State of the Water | 5 June 2026, h. 12.00 CEST, Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco
VENICE 2100, THE FUTURE REIMAGINED
Speakers:
Andrea Rinaldo, CMCC senior fellow, Professor, EPFL; President, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti; Stockholm Water Prize Laureate
Piero Lionello, Full Professor of Atmospheric Physics and Oceanography at the University of Salento; Lead Author for IPCC
Prof. Francesco Musco, Vice Rector for Sustainability at IUAV University of Venice and leading national expert on urban adaptation, coastal planning, and climate governance
Net Positive Futures & State of the Water | 5 June 2026, h. 18:00 CEST, IUAV University of Venice
TACKLING CLIMATE RISKS WITH THE ENERGY TRANSITION
Speakers:
Carlo Carraro, President Emeritus of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group III
Paolo D’Aprile, Sustainability Leader, Deloitte Central Mediterranean
Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Minister of the Environment and Energy Security of Italy
PLANET AQUA. The World Blue Community Forum | 8 June 2026, H. 12.30 | FONDAZIONE CINI, Isola di San Giorgio
CLOSING REFLECTION
Speaker: Andrea Rinaldo, CMCC senior fellow, Professor, EPFL; President, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti; Stockholm Water Prize Laureate