My main concern, as a conservation biologist, is the disappearance of nature. I have been a conservation biologist for 40 years now, working mostly in the tropics but also in (...)
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Erik Matthysen / Full Professor
Nature is a common good and few people value it more than evolutionary biologists like myself. But nature is increasingly falling victim to the “tragedy of the commons”.
Gwennaël Bataille / Researcher
Whatever I have to buy, I wonder what impact it has on the planet. More responsible alternatives almost systematically exist
Xavier Desmit / Researcher
Global threats require global, political actions. Individual actions are also important to support political initiatives. Adapting to change provides freedom, joy and awareness.
Josefine Vanhille / Researcher
Besides an ecological problem, I see climate change also as a (gigantic) social question.
Violaine Wathelet / PhD student in sociology
Travelling by bicycle, buying products in cooperative supermarkets, marching for climate... All this is a good thing but...
Stéphane VANWIJNSBERGHE / Ingénieur directeur
In the context of the management of the Soignes forest (Brussels), adoption of measures to adapt to climate change and measures to better preserve biodiversity.
Olivier De Schutter / Professor
There is enormous power in exemplarity; and there is psychological comfort in coherence.
Thomas Merckx / Postdoctoral researcher
Climate action not only need to be social but green too
Stéphanie Ponsar / Researcher
My main concern is on climate change for its impacts on sea level rise as well as on extreme events. It is a global issue in the sense that countries with the highest CO2 emissions (...)