The Climate festival: Creating a social platform and encouraging discussion on the climate debate

Music & culture

Jan 20

Who: Varmere Våtere Villere (More warm, more wet and more wild)

What: A climate festival encouraging debate and discussion.

Where: Norway

Project period: 2023

The climate festival “Varmere Våtere Villere”s mission is to make the climate debate more accessible and engaging by creating an informal and social arena, where topics ranging from global issues to smaller, everyday actions are discussed.

The meeting place for climate, knowledge and culture.

The festival’s mission is to make the climate debate both more accessible and engaging. The festival aims to create an informal and social arena accessible to the public, where topics ranging from global issues to smaller, everyday actions are discussed. Over the course of three days, Bergen, the second largest city in Norway, is filled with interesting conversations and exciting discussions concerning the most pressing issue of our time – the climate crisis.

The festival wishes to create a space where the climate crisis and how we should solve it is discussed, which is available and interesting for the public. The first edition of the festival was held the 11th to 13th of March 2022, with 2,700 visitors and close to 200 speakers spread across seven different venues both during daytime and in the evening.

Our ambition is to become the most important arena for climate communication in Norway and the Nordic. We will do this by inviting individuals with interesting and unique perspectives. Among our speakers are philosophers, politicians, authors, journalists, climate scientists, lawyers, leaders of NGOs and organizations, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders.

The program is balanced between optimism and realism, and will consist of everything from conversations, debates and lectures to film screenings, concerts, and other cultural events. In 2023, the festival will be held the 15th to the 17th of March.