EVENT

The Libera Università di Bolzano, together with its Competence Center for Economic, Environmental, and Social Sustainability and RUS, is organizing a hike on the theme "Climate Change and Water" in Val d'Ultimo.

Program:

09:00 Meeting at the parking lot and Fontana Bianca Lake Refuge - Bergrestaurant Weissbrunn (1872 m a.s.l.)

09:10 Welcome remarks:

- Camilla Wellstein – unibz, RUS Delegate  
- Carlo Alberto Zanella – President of CAI Alto Adige  
- Pietro Bruschi – President of the South Tyrolean Glaciological Service  
- Georg Pircher – Director of the Merano, Silandro Forestry Inspectorate

09:30 Presentations:

- Roberto Dinale – Director of the Hydrology and Dams Office of the Province of Bolzano: *The depletion of Fontana Bianca*  
- Maurizio Righetti – unibz: *Water basins and climate change*  
- Giacomo Bertoldi – eurac: *Impacts of climate change on water availability in Alpine regions. A perspective from upstream to downstream*  

Discussion with contributions: *Adaptation to changes in hydrological resources: conflicts and solutions for the future*

11:00 Hike to Lago Verde (2529 m a.s.l., trail 140)

13:45 Lunch at Rifugio Canziani (2561 m a.s.l.)

15:00 Descent towards the starting point

17:15 Return to the parking lot and visit to the Lahnersäge Visitor Center, Santa Gertrude

18:30 Return

Note: Costs for lunch at the refuge and the sawmill visit (3€ per person) are to be covered by the participants.