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From Italy to Siberia: The Climate Route team to cross mountains and continents documenting climate change

05.11.2020

A team of 12 activists, volunteers, professionals and researchers will travel from the Italian glacier of Marmolada to Uelen in Siberia, before reaching the Bering Strait to document the effects of climate change and the consequences these effects are having on the people living in these places.

Titled "The Climate Route," the project aims to communicate the impacts of climate change through an eco-friendly expedition. The 18 565 km journey will be carried out through sustainable modes of transport. The group plans to depart in June 2021, for a total duration of about two months. The itinerary will include different mountain systems, including the Dolomites, the Caucasus Mountains and the Altai Plateau.

Climate change remains a complex and difficult topic to understand, despite the growing attention to the issue in recent years. Through the expedition, The Climate Route team aims to focus attention on the climatic issues, creating awareness that can involve the largest number of people possible from different age groups and different social and cultural backgrounds. The project will carry out one of the longest on-the-road journeys ever made for scientific information dissemination purposes, to document the changes already underway, how these are influencing local populations' livelihood and how these communities are reacting. Travelling by land, the team will collect as many testimonials on climate change as possible.

To achieve this goal, they will use different communication channels, both on- and off-line, to ensure direct and continued interactions with audiences, who will follow the group's movements in real time. Environmental education will be an essential part of their project. In the group of volunteers that will cross Europe and Asia, there will be professional video makers who will record the journey through high quality videos and photographs. One of the aspects that will be documented will be the effects of climate change on biodiversity in mountainous areas.

At the end of the expedition, the story will be told mainly on off-line channels. The footage and collected material will be reworked and edited so that it can be broadcast as a documentary series through online streaming platforms.

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