One key obstacle to combating climate change is the naïve faith that it can be solved by technological progress, as most new inventions merely stimulate more consumption.
Dirk Verschuren / Research Professor
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Caroline Nieberding / Associate Professor
Comfort and luxury are two very different things and we should not lose both for our children, because we are obsessed by the latter.
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 (...)
Luc Janssens de Bisthoven / Coordinator of CEBioS programme
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Anne Tihon / Professeur émérite
I have noticed worrying changes in my garden, including a decrease in the number of birds, insects, bees, and amphibians, ... Many changes are needed.
Bert Gielen / Post-doc
I’m working as an ecologist studying the effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems and I’m especially concerned about the speed of which climate change is happening at (...)
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 (...)
Geneviève Lacroix / Head of ecosystem Modelling team
As an oceanographer, my main concern is the adverse impact of overfishing, microplastics, habitat degradation, sea water temperature rise, acidification, eutrophication, chemicals (...)