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Category: Climate change & political action

Wendt Müller / Associate Professor

by wechangeforlife24 April 2019

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 (...)

Climate change & political action

Koen De Ridder / Sr Researcher

by wechangeforlife23 April 2019

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 (...)

Climate change & political action

Guido Gryseels / Director general

by wechangeforlife23 April 2019

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 & political action

Sara Vicca / Post doc

by wechangeforlife23 April 2019

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.

Climate change & political action

Jean-Francois Bastin / Postdoc

by wechangeforlife23 April 2019

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 (...)

Climate change & political action

Violaine Wathelet / PhD student in sociology

by wechangeforlife23 April 2019

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

Climate change & political action

Jean Pestieau / Professeur émérite UCLouvain

by wechangeforlife23 April 2019Leave a comment

I am a physicist, specializing in the physics of fundamental interactions. I taught and did research mainly at the Catholic University of Louvain and before that at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) and Cinvestav (Mexico). For more than 50 years, I…

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Climate change & political action

Charlotte Janssens / PhD student

by wechangeforlife23 April 2019

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.

Climate change & political action

Stef Craps / Professor of English Literature

by wechangeforlife23 April 2019

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.

Climate change & political action

Peter Galbusera / Researcher

by wechangeforlife23 April 2019

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.

Climate change & political action

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