Claudio and Daniele, two friends from Venice, are convinced of that and decided to cover about 2.000 km in a little more than two weeks, in order to connect ideally the town of Venice with the town of Copenhagen, right in the sign of the greatest environmental threat of our era.
The occasion is the presentation of the 5AR Synthesis Report of the IPPC, the world's largest group of climate scientists, which will take place on October 31st in the Danish capital.
Riding through 4 European countries is not the purpose of the project, but a pretense to increase the attention on this topic. That is why the two friends have organized along the way a number of conferences and meetings, all focused on the scientific analysis of the problem and on the possible options to tackle it concretely, starting from the incentives for renewable energy and passing to the tools available for carbon management for companies and the energy efficiency of buildings.
Anybody is welcome to join the ride, starting on October 14th, also just for a few kilometers. The details of the stages can be found on the website www.ridewithus.eu. On the same site is available a funny tool, which permits to localize the two cyclists, and see in every moment in which point of their way they are currently riding.
The project has the patronages of the Italian Ministry of Environment and the Municipality of Venice, Schio, Rovereto, Bozen, and Nürnberg. It is also supported by the most important association of cyclists in Italy, Austria, Germany and Denmark.
A short video presentation of the project is available at the following addresses: - in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEqnmW-TUzE - in German https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhkHkxdrhmY The most exiting facts of the long riding days can also be found on Facebook and Twitter. For more information: [email protected] 340 97 83 337
