Catégorie : Climate change & political action

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 (...)

In order to recognise that climate change is a problem of individual responsibility, our traditional concepts regarding moral responsibility may need to be revised or expanded.

Climate action should not only be taken top-down (policy) but also bottom-up. Within this testimony I give an overview of my personnel actions to live in a more sustainable way.

I made changes in my daily life. I still feel powerless to fight climate change. Stopping lobbies and populism's influence on politicians is the key to the ecological transition.

Do we really need a recurrent disaster with immense human death toll to acknowledge the ecosystem goods and services of mangrove forests and protect them ?

I conduct research on the impacts climate change has on ecosystems, also in conjunction with other global changes – such as biodiversity loss. When I’m at conferences, it is easy (...)

While individuals can deliberately change their own lives, the key to reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement lies in cross-sectorally consistent and ambitious policies

Economic systems can suddenly change, with dramatic consequences, as we have seen with the Global Financial Crisis. Climate change can similarly get us into deep trouble globally (...)

Every day Earth Observation satellites provide us with images of the state/health of the Earth surface (...)