Programme
(last update: 12/03/2026)
Auditorium
490
Auditorium
120
Room
T+U
Call-and-response, a photography exhibition by the École Supérieure des Arts de l'image LE 75, will be on display throughout the two-day conference.
Day One
17 March
08:30 - 09:30
Registration
with welcoming coffee
09:30 - 9:40
Conference Opening
Frank Gerard, Climate and Environmental Transition Adviser at the Cabinet of the Minister of Mobility, Climate and Ecological Transition, and Sustainable Development
09:40 - 10:45
Samantha Burgess
Deputy Director - Copernicus Climate Change Service
State of the climate system: insights on European and global climate trends on warming, extremes, and impacts (🔗link)
Myles Allen
University of Oxford
Geological Net Zero: How we will stop climate change – eventually (🔗link)
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30
Climate finance and economic instruments
(A490)
Developing climate neutrality in the transport sector: opportunities and challenges
(A120)
Trajectory towards climate
neutrality in Belgium
(T+U)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Time
13:15 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Climate neutrality and just transition in the electricity sector
(A490)
The behavioural science of climate action
(A120)
How to better communicate climate science to policy?
(T+U)
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00
Enabling a just transition towards climate neutrality
(A490)
The interplay between climate change and ecosystems
(A120)
Effective climate services for better decisions
(T+U)
17:00
Venue Closes
Overview
Belgian Science for Climate Action Conference
Day Two
18 March
08:45 - 09:45
Registration
with welcoming coffee
09:45 - 10:45
Heleen De Coninck
TUE/NL Klimaatraad
Societal transitions towards a net-zero world (🔗link)
Katherine Richardson
University of Copenhagen
The climate change crisis cannot be tackled in isolation from other anthropogenic activities (🔗link)
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30
Latest advances in physical climate science
(A490)
Institutional capacity, democracy, and legal issues
(A120)
Climate neutrality and just transition in the agro-food sector
(T+U)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Time
13:15 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Advancing climate neutrality and a just transition in the industrial sector
(A490)
Potential of carbon management solutions
(A120)
Overview of the job opportunities outside academia for early career researchers
(T+U)
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00
Just transition to a low carbon building sector
(A490)
Circular economy: towards climate neutral production and consumption patterns in Belgium
(A120)
Belgian Climate Centre FAQs
(T+U)
17:00 - 18:00
Poster Awards & Closing