Iris Vermeir / Associate professor
The main concern is that a lot of consumption decisions are made without a lot of thought and even if we think about it, there is an overload on contradictory information on how (…)
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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
Marie-Clotilde Roose / Chargée de cours philosophiques
Like in Denmark, let the nation invest in its future (not only elites) : lower taxes for financial investments in green energy (wind, solar), permaculture and new living models.
Guido Gryseels / Director general
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 (…)
Bert Van Schaeybroeck / Scientiest
As a researcher I was involved in the coordination of a national climate project studying the effect of climate change on multiple aspects of our society. It was concluded that (…)
Rozemien De Troch / Postdoctoral researcher
For my research I analyse future timeseries of modelled variables such as temperature and precipitation. These climatological variables are obtained from a regional climate model (…)
Roland Libois / Chargé de cours
Protecting biodiversity requires a rethinking of our economy and policy
Hanne Hendrickx / Teaching and Research assistant
Year after year, alpine glaciers are receding due to climate change. Far less visible, but equally important, is the thawing of the frozen underground, called permafrost.
Gauthier Chapelle / In-Terre-dependent researcher & author
Trying to mobilize all actors to get out of fossil fuels and prepare a post-oil possibly post-collapse more inclusive and “feminine” civilization inspired by “Life Principles”
Joanna Suliga / PhD researcher
Environmental conservation is not only the part of my personal concerns, but also my professional interests. I am a member of the research project HiWET that aims at supporting (…)
Amandine Orsini / Professor
Need for better awareness and involvment of whole civil society about environmental degradation. Hope for a world without cars!
Lieven Bervoets / Full Professor
Flying less reduces your personal carbon footprint significantly.
Martin VASTRADE / Teacher/Researcher
Main concerns: as a biologist, I know Earth history was compound of successive massive extinctions followed by recolonisations and biodiversity explosions. I was first quite (…)
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 (…)