The current biodiversity crisis is still underrepresented in the news. I recently started the "Hedgehogstreet" project in the city I live in.
Frederik Van de Perre / PhD student
Testimonies
Veerle Van linden / Sr. researcher
Climate solutions should avoid problem shifting. Give education priority and highlight interconnections. Prices should reflect real costs. Lead by example.
Roland MOREAU / Retiree active for the Environment
The threat from climate change, if tackled now, offers the possibility for a real societal renaissance. Each of us can contribute as a enlightened customer and citizen/voter.
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.
Nicolas Titeux / Invited lecturer
As a researcher in biodiversity conservation, I am concerned with the impacts of an anthropogenic cocktail of pressures on the natural environment, including climate change.
Hendrik Wouters / Researcher
I am Hendrik Wouters, researcher at Ghent University. I study the emergence of heat waves, drought and intense precipitation. I have participated in the latest climate report from (...)
Christophe Pels / Technicien de recherches
What moves me the most is the definitive disappearance of species and the climate sceptic movements. I try to be an actor of change on a daily basis.
Leen Depauw / PhD-student
Huge biodiversity losses are taking place, caused by global warming and accelerated by massive deforestation.
Cathy Macharis / Professor
Towards a more sustainable mobility and logistics system
Kewan Mertens / Researcher
Societal change, not climate change, requires political will. And this, in the end, requires pressure from citizen, at all levels of society.