Hendrik Wouters / Researcher
I am Hendrik Wouters, researcher at Ghent University. I study the emergence of heat waves, drought and intense precipitation. I have participated in the latest climate report from (…)
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David Lombard / PhD student-researcher
Although the Anthropocene and climate change are widely known as scientific issues, they are also significant cultural problems. In literary criticism and ecocriticism, the main (…)
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Myriam Dumortier / Policy Officer, Guest Professor
Expert in biodiversity, changing towards a sustainable way of life since 30 years, convinced that sustainable living brings happiness and happy to share experiences.
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Xavier Fettweis / FNRS Research Associat
My main concerns about climate change in my researches are the melt of the Greenland ice sheet and the associate sea-level rise. I reduce my carbon footprint in many ways.
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Jean-Pascal van Ypersele / Former IPCC Vice-Chair / Professor of Climatology
My concern, which sometimes keeps me awake at night, is that we, humans, are threatening the very inhabitability of the only inhabitable planet in the solar system
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We change for life
We Change For Life is a project initiated by three scientists,
biologists or climatologist, who wish to raise public awareness about
the emergency to take action to ensure the livability of our planet.
250 scientists testify about the changes they put into practice in their life to better respect our environment
Christophe Pels / Technicien de recherches
What moves me the most is the definitive disappearance of species and the climate sceptic movements. I try to be an actor of change on a daily basis.
Leen Depauw / PhD-student
Huge biodiversity losses are taking place, caused by global warming and accelerated by massive deforestation.
Wanda Sass / PhD Candidate
It’s not a matter of one ‘or’ the other. We all will have to unite in doing everything that can be done together.
Kewan Mertens / Researcher
Societal change, not climate change, requires political will. And this, in the end, requires pressure from citizen, at all levels of society.
Anne-Laure Jacquemart / Professor
My main concerns are about the biodiversity crisis. Experts have recognised three main causes. The first main cause depends on habitat destruction, fragmentation and degradation (…)
Andrea Catellani / Professeur
Everything has to change: behaviors, spiritual life, political engagement… From a systemic point of view too, we have to move towards a real ecological transition.
Maaike Alaerts / Postdoctoral researcher
Climate change will induce direct and indirect new health problems that will result in new pressures for medicine and global human health
Pascal Mailier / Senior scientist
In our struggle to make this world a better place, our best weapon remains our determination to change ourselves. “Be the change you want to see in this world.” Mahatma Gandhi
David Docquier / Postdoc researcher
Scientific evidence shows that climate changes are ongoing. To mitigate those changes, we need to rapidly change our lifestyles, and not wait for a strong political action.
Matteo Campioli / Research professor
irreversibility, timing, will, costs
Gian-Marco Rignanese / Professor
Our use of energy has been one of the drivers (and probably the main one) of climate change. Moving to renewable sources of energy is crucial for the future of our planet. Materials (…)
Lucien Bettendorff / Research Director F.R.S.-FNRS
I do not think that there are environmental concerns specific to my field.They are in common with all fields in biological, chemical and biomedical sciences, but here is clearly (…)