The "International Center for Climate Governance" (ICCG) aims to foster and support the debate on initiatives at the sectoral, national, regional and international level designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and to promote the adaptation of the economic and environmental systems to the changing climate patterns.

The ICCG, located on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, has been established by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (FGC) and the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). It will carry out its activities in cooperation with the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) and other major research institutions worldwide.

The ICCG gathers international researchers and academics, climate change policy experts, negotiators, representatives of international and national institutions, environmental and social NGOS to discuss the political and economic dimension of climate change. In particular, the ICCG focuses on:

- the long-term impacts of climate change on socio-economic systems and their institutions;
- the sectoral and geographical distribution of these impacts and the global repercussions of the consequent structural changes;
- the international negotiations on climate policy and the definition of models of governance for the control of climate change.

The activities of the ICCG are developed through the organisation of events of international relevance, seminars, round tables, workshops and the implementation of training programmes targeted to researchers and government officials from developing countries.

The events are characterised by interdisciplinary and intercultural participation with the contributions of experts in different disciplines from various world regions. The crucial common denominator is the focus on the integration of the social, political, cultural and economic dimensions of the climate change problem.

Interaction and dialogue among national and international institutions, NGOs and business organisations is therefore the approach followed by the ICCG. Special emphasis is indeed given to the positions of various stakeholders to identify an area of shared interests that may evolve into concrete policy proposals in the field of climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Policy briefs, workshop reports, proposals to enhance the effectiveness of climate policy, declarations and statements from the policy and business world will be typical output of the International Centre on Climate Governance in the coming years.