Posters

Poster session day 1

Climate finance and economic instruments

• Kris Bachus (UAntwerp) - Piecing together the puzzle: can policy packaging make carbon pricing work?

 

The behavioural science of climate action

• Sofie Naeyaert (UGent)- Motivation vs. Means: The influence of financial capability on homeowners’ insulation decisions

• Hugues Draelants (UCLouvain) - The Climate Education Paradox: Why It Succeeds in Some Contexts and Fails in Others

• Jean-Jacques Dohogne - Climate labelling for food products - Analysis of current trends & possible future developments

• Jérôme Morandini (UCLouvain) - Convince or mobilise? Postures and configurations of climate scientists' receptions on X

• Adrien Grondin (UGent) - Leveraging prosocial research for pro-environmental behaviour

• Nathalie C. Castaigne (UCLouvain) - How do climate future projections influence pro-environmental attitudes, behaviours, emotions and related psychological distress? A systematic review of experimental evidence

 

Climate neutrality and just transition in the electricity sector

• Amirhossein Aminimehr (UAntwerp) - Global Assessment of Renewable Energy Droughts Under 1.5°C, 2°C, and 3°C Warming Scenarios

• Tinne Mast (VUB) - Modelling the impacts of climate extremes on Africa's future power systems

 

Effective climate services for better decisions

• Fien Serras (KU Leuven) - Reducing heat-related deaths during the July 2019 heatwave in Brussels through urban adaptation strategies

• Dirk Lauwaet (VITO) - High-resolution heat stress impacts and climate adaptation modelling for a just transition

 

The interplay between climate change and ecosystems

• Flor Hiergens (UGent) - TreeWatch.net: Revealing the hidden response of trees in a changing climate

• Qian Li (UHasselt) - Integrating Distribution Patterns of Mycorrhizal Biodiversity into Climate-Neutral Land Management in Belgium and Beyond

• Vera Claessens (UHasselt) - Temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities under current and future climate scenarios in pear orchards

• Marie Cavitte (VUB) - Safeguarding polar ecosystems: Evaluation framework recommends against 5 geoengineering concepts

• Hannelore Peeters (UAntwerp) - Geosystem services: Overlooked ecosystem services and how to manage them sustainably?

• Lorna Zeoli (ULiège) - Investigating the past to predict the future: assessing the climatic sensitivity of silver birch through radial growth variability

• Harold Hauzeur (ULiège) - Growth Dynamics and Physiology of Temperate Tree Species Under Environmental Drivers

• Kobe Happaerts (UAntwerp) - Do trees grow in volume and sequestrate carbon at the same time?

 

Enabling a just transition towards climate neutrality

• Endale Alemayehu AL (KU Leuven) - Health impacts of extreme heat in medically at-risk populations: A space-time stratified case-crossover analysis in Belgium

• Emmanuelle Kuijt (VUB) - Degrees of inequality: How educational attainment shapes mortality associated to non-optimal temperatures in different provinces of Belgium

• Tom Bauler (ULB) - Governing Just Transitions from the Top: Towards an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda on Polluter Elites

Poster session day 2

How to better communicate climate science to policy?

• Bart Rymen (Belspo) - Opportunity to engage with the IPCC

• Philippe Marbaix, Camille Tomasetti (Plateforme wallonne du GIEC) - The Walloon platform for the IPCC: disseminating climate change science and supporting the Walloon adaptation strategy

 

Climate neutrality and just transition in the agro-food sector

• Jo Bijttebier (ILVO) - Develop effective climate smart agriculture knowledge and innovation systems to support the transition to climate smart agriculture across Europe

• Marko Perisic (UHasselt) - Overlooked opportunities: Phytoremediation between Remediation and Agricultural Practice

• Shenglei Hao (UHasselt) - Carbon balance and fruit yield of pear trees under different climate scenarios

• Shannon de Roos (VUB) - Crop heat stress in the Community Land Model (CLM5)

• François Rineau (UHasselt) - Negative emission technologies: Enhanced weathering leads to substantial C accrual on crop macrocosms

 

Latest advances in physical climate science

• Joppe Massant (UGent) - Reconstructing 3D cloud profiles from 2D satellite imagery using deep learning

• Emeric Babut du Marès (UIT) - Mapping the Methane Gas Hydrates Stability Zone beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 40 Ma to the year 3000

• Alexis Geels (ULB) - Carbon release from thawing subsea permafrost has potential to disrupt Arctic Ocean carbon cycle

• Rosa Pietroiusti (VUB) - Young people disproportionately exposed to lifetime fire danger: a Portuguese case study

• Derrick Muheki (VUB) - From Paper to Proof: Revealing Congo Basin Warming Through Rescued Climate Archives

• Ni Li (VUB) - Wikimpacts 1.0: A new global climate impact database based on automated information extraction from Wikipedia

Potential of carbon management solutions

• Kris Welkenhuysen (RBINS) - Geo-techno-economic assessment of CO2 capture, transport, and storage for decarbonising cement production

• Ceri Vincent (BGS) - Maturing CO2 storage opportunities in Europe to meet climate targets

 

Advancing climate neutrality and a just transition in the industrial sector

• Mishel Mohan (VUB) - International Cooperative Initiatives (ICIs) and Decarbonisation: Effectiveness of the Breakthrough Agenda

 

Just transition to a low carbon building sector

• Johanna E Liebrand (UGent) - The neighbourhood energy cooperative in the just energy transition – A strategic niche management analysis of the Living-Lab Muide-Meulestede

• Eleonora Rubinacci (archipelago architects) - Architectural levers: balancing comfort and carbon in inpatient design

• Ophélie Noël (ULiège) - 19th-century residential timber frames: Structural reuse potential and development of a technical and heritage assessment protocol

• Isabelle Fotsing Metegam (UMons) - From Stock to Flow: Historical Evolution, Typologies, and Strategies of Plastics in the Walloon Building Sector for a Circular and Low-Carbon Economy

 

Trajectory towards climate neutrality in Belgium

• Thilo Heinecke (ULiège) - VERBE – Establishing a greenhouse gas verification system for Belgium

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Circular economy: towards climate neutral production and consumption patterns in Belgium

• Tom De Mil (ULiège) - TIGHTROPE – Timber right valorisation and Forest and resource optimisation

 

Enabling a just transition towards climate neutrality

• Rebeka Hengalová and Martin Vokálek (EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy) - Just & Green? Citizens Speak