Local Organizers
International Center for Climate Governance
The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) is a joint initiative of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (FGC), which focuses its research activities on the design of climate policy and related governing institutions.
Located on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, in front of Saint Mark’s Square in Venice, the ICCG gathers researchers in economics and political sciences who explore the interdependencies between the economic, social, cultural, religious and political aspects of climate governance.
Fully interdisciplinary and open to the interaction and cooperation between different worlds and cultures, the ICCG favours dialogues and negotiations to achieve equitable and effective decisions on climate policy.
The ICCG promotes initiatives at the sectoral, regional, national, and international level designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and to facilitate the adaptation of economic and environmental systems, particularly in developing countries, to the changing climate patterns.
Cooperation has already started with the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, PrincetonUniversity, the Harvard Environmental Economic Programme and other major international organisations and research institutions.
Further information is avaliable at http://www.iccgov.org.
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) is a no-profit, no-partisan research institution established to carry out research in the field of sustainable development.
Recognised by the President of the Italian Republic in July 1989, it has since become a leading international research centre.
One of its principal aims is to promote interaction between academic, industrial and public policy spheres in order to comprehensively address concerns about economic development and environmental degradation.
The FEEM's activities are guided by four fundamental criteria: i) to analyse relevant and innovative research areas; ii) to focus on "real" world issues; iii) to integrate multi-disciplinary approaches; iv) to create and foster international research networks.
FEEM also supplies technical support and advice to the public and private decision-making process in the economic and environmental field, at the national as well as international level (The Italian Ministry of Finance and Economics, the Italian Ministry of the Environment, expert groups under the umbrellas of the EU, the OECD, the United Nations, the UN Commission of Sustainable Development, the IPCC, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, etc.).
FEEM also co-operates with Institutions such as the World Bank, the NBER, Resources for the Future, the CEPR, the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, and several European and US Universities.
Further information is available at http://www.feem.it
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) is a newly established research centre, funded by the Italian Ministries of the Environment and Land Protection, of Education, University and Research, and of Economy and Finance, that aims at furthering knowledge in the field of climatic variability, including causes and consequences, through the development of high-resolution simulations and impact models. It represents the most ambitious initiative undertaken in Italy , within the framework of the National Research Plan, and specifically the National Research Plan on Climate. The mission of the CMCC is to improve the understanding of the nature and mechanisms of climate variability, its causes and its impacts, with a special emphasis on the Mediterranean Area and its interactions with the global climate. It targets several ambitious objectives. First of all, the CMCC produces numerical models, simulations, applications and assessments in the specific field of climate dynamics, climate modelling, climate impacts and policy. The CMCC also offers high level training on climate modelling. Second, it establishes a significant computational facility to support Italian climate numerical simulation research and contribute to capacity building in the Mediterranean region. Third, the CMCC disseminates the products of its activity to the national scientific community. Given that the CMCC aims at providing a key contribution to climate research both at national and international level, its organisation is well connected in the international context, both within the European Union and with external partners of the European Union, in particular with the Mediterranean Countries, the United States and Japan.
Further information is available at http://www.cmcc.it.
