On December 11 at 11:00, the University of Brescia is organizing the seminar “UNITA GREENER PEAKS. Dal Karakorum all'Adamello: i ghiacciai come sentinelle del cambiamento climatico”, an event open to the entire university community and the public, sponsored by the CAI (Italian Alpine Club) section of Brescia.
The event will take place at the Department of Economics and Management, in Sala della Biblioteca in via San Faustino 74/B and will feature interventions from Carmine Trecroci (University of Brescia, RUS, and UNITA Universitas Montium), Roberto Ranzi (University of Brescia and UNITA Universitas Montium), Veronica Vismara (CAI and President of the TAM Lombardia Commission), and Renato Veronesi (President of CAI Brescia).
This event is part of the GREEN DAY UNITA initiative promoted by the UNITA Universitas Montium Alliance, of which the University of Brescia has been a member since 2023.
The GREEN DAY UNITA will be held simultaneously at all the universities of the Alliance (Universidade de Beira Interior – Portugal, Instituto Politécnico de Guarda – Portugal, Universidad Pública de Navarra – Spain, Universidad de Zaragoza – Spain, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour – France, Université Savoie Mont Blanc – France, University of Turin – Italy, University of Brescia – Italy, Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale – Switzerland, Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara – Romania, Universitatea Transilvania Brasov – Romania, and Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University of Ukraine – Ukraine) to bring the university communities closer to the activities of the UNITA Alliance in the field of sustainable development, and particularly to promote awareness of the universities’ efforts to improve their ecological footprint and spread the culture of sustainability.
The UNITA GREENER PEAKS event at the University of Brescia will provide an in-depth look at the link between climate change and glaciers. Our university is the creator and organizer of Climbing for Climate, the RUS event, which will reach its sixth edition in 2024, bringing renewed public attention to research on the impacts of global warming on alpine glacial ecosystems, involving the university and local communities in our country.
Like this year’s Climbing for Climate, UNITA GREENER PEAKS offers a unified and sustainable vision of glaciers. It is a call to administrators, economic operators, and citizens to make glaciers and high-altitude areas concrete examples of climate change mitigation and adaptation and to promote sustainable mountain engagement.