The Global Cruise Activist Network (GCAN) is calling on UN delegates to take immediate steps to ensure that cruise ships in service anywhere in the world comply with standards that will achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by the…
WahV is the main Italian partner for WaterLANDS one of the first projects to be funded by the European New Green Deal, which also includes the participation ofCa’Foscari University of Venice. Under the Horizon 2020 programme, this five-year project will…
Jane da Mosto has been awarded the Masi Prize for the "Civiltà Veneta". The award, created by the Masi Foundation and now in its fortieth year, chose the theme "Vision and Courage". Jane da Mosto commented as follows: "It is…
The publication Whose city is it anyway?, written by Carolyn Smith and Jane da Mosto, won the Istituto Veneto Award for Venice 2021. The award ceremony was held the 11th of September at Palazzo Franchetti and can be watched again here …
WahV has been selected by the City of Venice to participate in the Civic Crowdfunding initiative to support the project "ONDEW* - Let's address climate change together". The project has a total cost of 10000€: if we manage to reach…
WahV and Venezia FC announce the beginning of a collaboration regarding the sustainability of Venice. Sharing WahV's commitment to safeguarding Venice as a living city, Venezia FC has decided to support the activities of the association. Here you can read…
During the demonstration on 5 June 2021, organised by the Comitato No Grandi Navi at the passage of the MSC Orchestra, photographer Michele Gallucci took a shot of Jane da Mosto aboard a rowing boat and iconically expressed the environmentalist…
We strongly support the proposal of the UNESCO World Heritage Center to the World Heritage Committee at the 44th session (16-31 July 2021) under the chairmanship of the People’s Republic of China to place Venice and its Lagoon on the…
Jane Da Mosto gave an interview to CNN about the unsolved problems related to large cruise ships in Venice. "The problem is that the politicians in Rome who have the power to make these decisions are out of touch with…
On 7th March 2021 Camilla Bertolini, Chief Scientist of WahV, challenged herself to run 22km (14miles) following the cycling route where the Sile river meets the lagoon (from Portegrandi to CapoSile), and then along the edge of the lagoon to…
We are here Venice has signed a joint appeal with other associations to be sent to the Italian President of Ministers Mario Draghi, to draw attention to Venice on the occasion of the presentation of the Italian Recovery Plan. The…
Ethical travel network PRIOR has endorsed We are here Venice as part of a recent campaign for travellers to make positive contributions to the places that they visit. WahV is highlighted as an organisation that travellers should donate to because…
The ASviS Sustainable Development Festival is a national awareness-raising campaign in Italy, held with the aim of spreading a culture of sustainability throughout Italy. It is part of the UN 2030 Agenda. We are here Venice teamed up with the…
The participative re-visioning of WahV’s poster campaign conceived and curated by Eleonora Sovrani is featured in the solo show of Andrew Huston at Beatrice Buratti Anderson gallery in Venice. Huston produced 2 of the 31 posters made by 27 residents of…
Image by Annie Drew. In collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam and Professor Caroline Nevejan (Chief Scientific Officer of Amsterdam), WahV is co-curating the Exploratorium - a multi-disciplinary outreach programme which was due to run parallel to the Dutch Pavilion…
These photographs by Eleonora Sovrani expose the eternal beauty of the city as well as the emptiness created by the absence of tourists but also by the remarkable reduction in residents in recent years. On the other hand some of…
WahV was the only NGO to take part in the Cartagena Cruise Dialogue 2020, where we presented "The Venice Paradox" - our analysis of the negative impacts cruise tourism in Venice. The abstract underlines the importance of reformulating the issue…
An article written by Jack Wright And Jane da Mosto has been published in local Venetian newspaper La Nuova Venezia. The piece underlines the link between local air pollution and global climate change, as well as signalling the irony of…
Italian national broadcaster RAI has explored the causes and impact of high tides in Venice, featuring an interview with Jane da Mosto.
The Polpo restaurants in London have chosen We are here Venice as the charity to benefit from their Christmas fundraising campaign and will be generously collecting money from their diners to support our work here in Venice throughout December. Please…
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