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
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 (...)
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.
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.