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 (...)
Wendt Müller / Associate Professor
Testimonies
Ludovic Bequet / Researcher
Individual change is not only about riding a bike and growing vegetables, it also means questioning our core values and becoming conscious of our actions and their consequences
Manuel Sintubin / Full Professor
Living a fulfilling live in harmony with our 'living' planet
Olga Szczodry / Biodiversity & Monitoring Expert
I try to act for the planet via my job, a sustainable lifestyle and by showing the example; but we also need policy-makers that will dare making a transition towards a new system
Jean-Louis Tison / Professor
I am a glaciologist, Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and I will be retired this year. For the last 30 years, I studied the Cryosphere (natural ice on Earth) aiming (...)
An Ansomms / Professor
As a researcher working in Central Africa for almost two decades now, I have seen how climate change is not a future challenge. It is affecting the living conditions of rural farmers (...)
Roy Remmen / Professor Department of Primary and Interdisciplinary Care
Think globally but act locally, in the meantime we should keep on influencing our policymakers and provide them new evidence to get them in the right direction.
Sam Provoost / Researcher
A sustainable economy should include ecological costs
Éléonore Martin / PhD student in biomedical physics
Individual awareness and efforts are a good thing, but they cannot resolve the ecological problem, and neither can science. The issue is a societal one.
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 (...)