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
Koen De Ridder / Sr Researcher
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 (…)
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 (…)
Estelle Laurent / PhD student
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 (…)
Sara Vicca / Post doc
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.
Jean-Francois Bastin / Postdoc
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 (…)
Pierre Biot / Head of Unit in charge of biodiversity at federal level
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 (…)
Estelle Cantillon / Research Director FNRS and professor of Economics
Every small step we take as individuals helps but a real transition will require collective action at all levels. Research can help.
Anne Teller / Senior Expert
“I am not opimistic but I keep hope” R. Oppenheimer
Jerome Mallefet / Research associate FNRS
Changing habits: a small step for each of us, a huge step for mankind.
Violaine Wathelet / PhD student in sociology
Travelling by bicycle, buying products in cooperative supermarkets, marching for climate… All this is a good thing but…
Valérie Wilquet / Senior Scientist
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.