Grammenos Mastrojeni is the guest speaker at the second round of the Emergenza Terra 2024 lecture series promoted by the Department of environment constructions and design SUPSI at its Mendrisio Campus, in partnership with Bobbium, and which this year explores the theme of climate and conflict.

A diplomat, lecturer and writer, since 2019 he has been the Senior Deputy Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, responsible for climate action, after having served as Development Cooperation Environment Coordinator, President of the UN Global Alliance of Mountains and Co-Chair of the Global Alliance of Islands.

He has been focusing his attention on climate change for nearly thirty years and in his articles since the early 1990s he has been advocating the link between environmental protection, human cohesion, peace and security.

In his public lecture entitled Climate: new geopolitical scenarios for the Mediterranean and Europe, Grammenos Mastrojeni will bring attention to the sea that is warming and rising the most, surrounded by the second fastest warming region globally: the sea that faces exacerbating and imminent threats. And it is not just our problem: the interests of three continents and the world’s worst climate destabilisation dynamics converge on the Mediterranean. If, however, we understand what is happening, we can turn the challenge into an opportunity unique in history.

Author of numerous publications, including the bestseller Greenhouse effect, war effect with climate physicist Antonello Pasini (host of Emergenza Terra in 2023), Mastrojeni has taught sustainability and conflict resolution at several universities in Italy and abroad. In 2009, Ottawa University entrusted him with the first teaching activated by a university on environment, resources and geostrategy, a subject he continues to teach. He collaborates with the Climate Reality Project, an initiative aimed at spreading awareness of climate change risks launched by Nobel laureate Al Gore.

The event, free of charge and open to all interested persons, takes place on Tuesday 22 October 2024 at 6.30 p.m. in the Sala polivalente (ground floor) of the SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio (via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15).

Final refreshment.

Registration is required for organisational reasons