Events

Mediterranean Mountains: Climate Change, Landscape and Biodiversity

Milan, Italy

From: 04.09.2015 to: 04.09.2015

The workshop will take place at EXPO in the Bio-Mediterranean Cluster at 2:00 pm and aims at fostering the sharing of experience, strengthening and widening networking and cooperation among regional stakeholders in the Mediterranean on the governance of mountain territories. Tools and approaches are required to support a shift to a greeneconomy in the region. The workshop will focus in particular on local initiatives for mitigation and adaptation to climate change, sustainable tourism and landscape, innovative methods to manage and value biodiversity and agro-biodiversity in Mediterranean mountain areas.

Representatives will gather from the countries included in the EXPO Bio-Mediterranean Cluster and from other Mediterranean countries. International organizations active in different fields invited include the European Commission, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), FAO-Mountain Partnership, European Network of Universities for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention (UNISCAPE), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) , United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) , International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), Europe in the Mediterranean (MED) Programme, ENPI-MED Programme, ESPON Programme, Alpine Convention , Carpathian Convention , Emblematic Mediterranean Mountains Network, Euromontana ,Rural Forum.

Anna Giorgi, director of the GeSDiMont center of the Mountain University (UNIMI), and Graziano Rossi, botanic professor at the University of Pavia and expert of ecology of the mountainous environment, will attend the work table “mitigation and local adaptation to climate change” with an intervention entitled: "Plant Diversity Changes on High Mountain Summits in the face of Climate Change".

Participant countries include: Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, France , Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Montenegro, Morocco, Serbia , Spain and Turkey .