Members of the Portici Patrimonio Mondiale office participated in the seminar Governance del Patrimonio per Resilienza e Adattamento, held on March 6, 2025 in Turin, at the Castello del Valentino, as part of the AGREE project (Advancing Cultural Heritage Governance for Resilient Climate Adaptation).
This project involves an international partnership of important academic and cultural institutions, including the Politecnico di Torino (DIST), the University of Leeds, the Norwegian Institute of Cultural Heritage (NIKU), ICCROM, the British Council, and the municipalities of Hull (UK) and Innlandet (Norway).
Our representatives delivered a speech on the challenges of conservation, resilience and adaptation to climate change that porticoes are called to face.
The aim was to provide food for thought and proposals for the conservation and enhancement of porticoes in a rapidly evolving global context.
These are new and unexpected challenges, linked to the environmental megatrends of the 21st century, in particular to increasingly intense climate change and its consequences territories.
The flood of October 2024 that affected some areas of Bologna, although it did not directly affect the components of the serial World Heritage site, highlighted the vulnerability of the territory and the need to adopt prevention and management strategies for future emergencies. The new Management Plan of the UNESCO Site will take into account the risks arising from climate change, identifying this issue as one of the fundamental pillars for future strategies.
In this context, a specific project was presented that falls within the scope of Law 20 February 2006, No. 77 - Special measures for the protection and use of Italian Sites and Elements of cultural, landscape and environmental interest, included in the "World Heritage List", placed under the protection of UNESCO.
The project represents an example of how cultural heritage can be transformed into a resource for addressing climate change.
