
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 (…)
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 (…)
In our team at VITO we focus on the impacts of climate change, in particular in cities. One of the main outcomes of our work in recent years is that, under the business-as-usual (…)
I have worked for more than 40 years on the challenges to food security in Africa. The main challenge to agriculture and natural resources management in Africa today is to find (…)
My research focuses on the consequences of habitat fragmentation and climate modification on dispersal choices of organisms. Therefore, since we know global change will have dramatic (…)
Climate change strongly affects my daily life. Individual actions cannot bring emissions to zero within current context. Drastic policy measures are needed to change the context.
I’m working on adressing climate change from the fundamental understanding of global forest ecology.
I study the impact of climate change on the global state of forests (carbon (…)
Concerns: we have all figures and we know what we shoud do to be more balanced and to have therefore a more balanced earth but a shift in consciousness remains a personal decision (…)
Every small step we take as individuals helps but a real transition will require collective action at all levels. Research can help.
“I am not opimistic but I keep hope” R. Oppenheimer
Changing habits: a small step for each of us, a huge step for mankind.
Travelling by bicycle, buying products in cooperative supermarkets, marching for climate… All this is a good thing but…
My focus of scientific research is the study, mainly the composition and chemistry, of the Mars and Venus atmosphere, using instruments onboard a satellite, in a very similar 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.