Wendt Müller / Associate Professor
The final piece that pushed me to take action was a recent study showing dramatic declines in insect abundances in German nature reserves. It not only touched me because I was (…)
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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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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
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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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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 (…)
250 scientists testify about the changes they put into practice in their life to better respect our environment
Manuel Eggen / Policy Officer
Concerns: Challenges regarding climate change, the right to food and food sovereignty are huge in Belgium. Since 1980 we have lost 68 % of our farms and the remaining farms are (…)
Anne Tihon / Professeur émérite
I have noticed worrying changes in my garden, including a decrease in the number of birds, insects, bees, and amphibians, … Many changes are needed.
Amaury Johnen / Post-doctoral researcher
My biggest concern is the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, as it causes acidification of the oceans and global warming, leading to climate change and biodiversity (…)
Mathieu Luyckx / Assistant Chief Resident / PhD student
Main concerns:
We see a rise in gynaecological cancer in (very) young patient that we cannot fully explain actually – we aslo see, in Belgium especially, a important rise in (…)
Arianna Piccialli / Postdoc researcher
As a planetary scientist studying Mars and Venus, I realized how our own planet Earth is unique and extremely fragile and how important it is to preserve it.
Kristof Van Assche / Professor in Philosophy of Law
In order to recognise that climate change is a problem of individual responsibility, our traditional concepts regarding moral responsibility may need to be revised or expanded.
Pierre Meerts / Professor
I am concerned that climate change is currently receiving much more attention than other dimensions of human impacts on the environment. The accumulation of organic and mineral (…)
Adrien Pham / English teacher
I organize zero waste workshops (cleaning and cosmetic products) or I ask my students to lead them
Amandine Orsini / Professor
Need for better awareness and involvment of whole civil society about environmental degradation. Hope for a world without cars!
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.
Samuel Helsen / PhD researcher
Climate action should not only be taken top-down (policy) but also bottom-up. Within this testimony I give an overview of my personnel actions to live in a more sustainable way.
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.