Category: 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 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 (...)

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 (...)

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.

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 (...)

Travelling by bicycle, buying products in cooperative supermarkets, marching for climate... All this is a good thing but...

I hope that #Wechangeforlife will incentive many others so that we create a society where we no longer talk about the sustainable option, but the standard one.

As a literary scholar who studies climate change fiction, I believe that focusing on individual lifestyle choices risks distracting from the policy debates we should be having.

Biodiversity, climate and human well-being go hand in hand but are deteriorating. We, politician and citizens, need to act urgently in a holistic and realistic way.