Programme
(last update: 15/01/2026)
Day One
17 March
08:30 - 09:30
Registration
with welcoming coffee
09:30 - 9:40
Conference Opening
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
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Myles Allen
University of Oxford
​Geological Net Zero: How we will stop climate change – eventually
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10:45 - 11:15
Coffee Break
Nonlinear processes: compounding events
& tipping points
11:15 - 12:30
Climate finance and economic instruments
Developing climate neutrality in the transport sector: opportunities and challenges
Trajectory
towards climate
neutrality in Belgium
12:30
Lunch Time
13:15 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Climate neutrality and just transition in the electricity sector
The behavioural science of climate action
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How to better communicate climate science to policy?
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15:15 - 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00
Enabling a just transition towards climate neutrality
The interplay between climate change and ecosystems
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Effective climate services for better decisions
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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
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Katherine Richardson
University of Copenhagen
​The climate change crisis cannot be tackled in isolation from other anthropogenic activities
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10:45 - 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30
Latest advances in physical climate science
Institutional capacity, democracy, and legal issues
Climate neutrality and just transition in the agro-food sector
12:30
Lunch Time
13:15 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Advancing climate neutrality and a just transition in the industrial sector
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Potential of carbon management solutions
Overview of the job opportunities outside academia for early career researchers
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00
Just transition to a low carbon building sector
Circular economy: towards climate neutral production and consumption patterns in Belgium
Belgian Climate Centre FAQs
17:00 - 18:00
Poster Awards & Closing