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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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 (…)
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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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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
the emergency to take action to ensure the livability of our planet.
Scientifiques, travailleurs, étudiants,... tous témoignent des changements mis en pratique dans leur vie pour respecter au mieux notre environnement.
Fabien Darrouzet / Research Scientist
I am very concerned by the climate warming, mainly due to Human activities. We are already observing many alarming signals and some action should be done now, at a personal level (…)
Thierry Hance / Professor in Ecology
La crise de la biodiversité affecte profondément les écosystèmes et le changement climatique. Limiter notre consommation de ressources nous aide à évoluer vers une économie fondée sur l’être humain et l’environnement.
Emmanuel Dekemper / Researcher
Politieke leiders moeten een belastingverschuiving op gang brengen om de « markt » te dwingen rekening te houden met de ecologische voetafdruk van handelsgoederen en het vervoer ervan.
Oscar Brousse / PhD Candidate
Working on the African urban climate at KU Leuven, one of my main concern is concerning data scarcity and the induced lack of resilience from populations living there.
Karien De Cauwer / Policy advisor
Concerns:
Key concerns are sea level rise, acidification, harmful algae blooms, biodiversity loss, place for nature ..
Personal actions:
Personally we renovated our house to (…)
Ludovic Bequet / Researcher
Individuele verandering gaat niet alleen over fietsen en het verbouwen van groenten, het betekent ook dat we onze kernwaarden in vraag moeten stellen en ons bewust moeten worden van onze acties en de gevolgen daarvan.
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
Olivier Hardy / FNRS Researcher
We kennen slechts een klein deel van de biodiversiteit waarvan toekomstige generaties kunnen profiteren. We moeten dit potentieel niet vernietigen….
Jeanne Rezsöhazy / PhD Student
Today, I am mainly concerned by how quickly environmental and climate changes occur, compared to the political inertia with regard to environmental issues.
Brigitte Gloire / Adviser in environment & development
Market « laisser faire » and capitulating politics in the face of polluters and false solutions is incompatible with restoring our planet and human dignity.
Jacques Tempere / Hoogleraar
La façon dont les scientifiques universitaires sont évalués les pousse à voler davantage plutôt que moins, et cela doit changer. En particulier, les vols pour participer à des jurys cérémoniels devraient s’arrêter.
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.