Venus board is quite small with Venus status scale and four reserved places for cities (similar to Phobos). They are Maxwell base on Venus surface, Stratopolis high in its atmosphere, Luna metropolis on moon and Daybreak city on Mercury located on special rails.
There is fourth terraforming factor called "Venus status". Going from 0% to 30% by step of 2%. Works similar like other factors (increasing TR etc.) Reaching 8% awards extra card, and 16% 1 extra TR. However maxing Venus status is not necessary for ending game.

There is new Venus tag.
Two new resources meterorites and floating platforms. Floating platforms can be stored on some cards like animals.
Symbol of wild card resource (=any) is on some cards.
Milestone King of floating platforms is for having 7 floating platforms.
Award Venus expert needs most Venus tags.

New 5. game phase - Solar phase:
After 4. phase - production.
If game do not ends now, make action of World government.
Because colonisation of Venus should not slow terraforming Mars, World government comes to help.
First player choose one of non-maxed factors and increases it by 1. It can be Venus status. But he does not get TR or any bonus. But it activate some cards like Arctic Algae.

Varint: You can exclude this rule for longer play.

Solo play is start on 14 TR and is again for 14 generation. You need max all 4 factors for success. But you get this World governement help 13x.

This new totally re-designed edition will bring a completely new iconography, an entirely new rulebook with lots of 3D pictures for easy comprehension of the rules, more balanced gameplay, a new events deck, improved and streamlined mechanisms, upgraded wood components for the power plants instead of the cardboard tokens, while maintaining the beautiful illustrations on the board and cover, and all this with a shorter play length.