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Founded in 2022, the 🇧🇪 Belgian Climate Centre focuses on climate science, fostering collaboration, supporting research, and providing decision-makers with scientific expertise | climatecentre.be | socials & more: https://linktr.ee/belgianclimatecentre
Immersion dans le @climatecentrebe.bsky.social. Son objectif: maximiser l'impact de la science sur l'atténuation du #changementclimatique avec pour défi d’être entendu par les décideurs politiques et les acteurs économiques. Regardez notre reportage➡️ shorturl.at/RKZnR
#climatechange #climateresearch
Een kijkje bij @climatecentrebe.bsky.social. Hun missie: de impact van wetenschap in de strijd tegen #klimaatverandering maximaliseren met als uitdaging om gehoord te worden door beleidsmakers en economische actoren.
Bekijk onze reportage ➡️ shorturl.at/vjCEi
#climatechange #climateresearch
In its new report, the @esabcc.bsky.social calls on the EU to strengthen adaptation and accelerate emission reductions and removals in the agri-food system to safeguard food security and farmers’ livelihoods and align agriculture with climate neutrality objectives.
Full report: tinyurl.com/5n97uysu
🌡️ Following yesterday's post: @vrtnws.be covers the same study, with input from our Centre and #VUB researchers. Warming: 0.35°C/decade, 75% faster than before. #ClimateScience
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Global warming has accelerated since ~2015: now 0.34 to 0.42°C/decade vs. 0.2°C/decade before. The Paris 1.5°C limit may be breached before 2030. #ClimateScience #GlobalWarming
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Carbon removal is needed for climate goals — but at what cost? Direct air capture could push nickel & barium mining to 86% of current levels. Bioenergy with capture could raise potassium demand by 70%. Every approach has trade-offs. #CDR #ClimateAction
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03348-8
Only 33% of the world's researchers are women.
0% of climate crises will be solved without them.
Happy #InternationalWomensDay!
#WomenInScience #IWD2025 #ClimateScience
The sea isn't flat. 90% of 385 sea-level studies underestimate ocean reach by 24-27 cm. A Nature review warns 1/3 more land faces flooding, threatening 77-132 million people. #SeaLevelRise
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How do we design better environmental policy? Ask residents.
Brussels’ Citizens’ Climate Assembly generated 100+ proposals on housing, sustainable food and the sharing economy. A new cycle on responsible digital tech begins in 2026. #ClimateAction #Brussels
🔗 environnement.brussels/citoyen/news...
Mangroves don’t need huge land grabs: a Nature Communications study finds +7.3% global protection could yield +13.3% climate resilience, especially with cross-border plans. #Mangroves #ClimateChange
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🚨 FINAL CALL: Registration closes TODAY! ⏳
Join the Belgian 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 2026 (17–18 March, Brussels). If you’re advancing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐮𝐦, this is where science meets policy and business.
👉 Register today: events.spacepole.be/event/247
🌍 Even with deep decarbonisation, residual emissions remain. At #BSCA26, Kris Piessens (KBIN-IRSNB) dives into carbon management: CO₂ storage, enhanced weathering, and how to scale + verify impact in Belgium. 17–18 Mar 2026.
Registration still possible: events.spacepole.be/event/247/
⚡ More electrification is inevitable—but what’s the smart, fair route? At #BSCA26, Francesco Contino (UCLouvain) leads debates on must-haves vs real choices, energy communities, grids, and siting wind/solar. 17–18 Mar 2026.
Registration still possible: events.spacepole.be/event/247/
Climate change is shifting mosquito & tick habitats. With VITO + Belgian Climate Centre, funded by @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social (C3S), we’re building an operational climate service for @sciensano.be: AI + stats + near-real-time 100 m daily maps to anticipate health risks in #Belgium.
📊 Great data isn’t the finish line—turning it into decisions is. At #BSCA26, Nele Veldeman (VITO) chairs a session on climate services: usable climate info for cities, policy & public health in Belgium. 17–18 Mar 2026, Brussels.
Register still possible: events.spacepole.be/event/247/
Deep within Africa lies a vast climate vault. The Congo Basin stores nearly a third of global tropical peat carbon — yet tropical lakes actively release ancient CO₂. Up to 40% comes from millennia-old peat, now disturbed. A fragile balance at risk. #CarbonCycle
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Climate change is moving pathogens. Laura Van Poelvoorde, @sciensano.be: Belgium tracks ~38% via wastewater, but “one matrix doesn’t fit all”. We need smarter sampling plus One Health data. #ClimateCookiesAndCoffee #ClimateHealth
🔗 www.climatecentre.be/events-1/gen...
📣 Scientific data needs a voice.
Thanks to Ann De Ron (FishGrowFeet), 8 researchers from VUB, UGent & VITO are now media-ready. From EU policy to urban heat, they can explain the facts clearly
🫵 Journalists at VRT or Belga or elsewhere: get in touch!
New sessions this autumn
#SciComm #ClimateScience
Tipping points depend on time: ‘fast’ systems can tip after brief 1.5°C spikes; ‘slow’ ice sheets lag but still need peaks <2°C. Carbon dioxide removal can cool back down—𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 alongside emissions cuts. news.exeter.ac.uk/global-syste...
Brussels researchers: turn your expertise into a fun 30-min workshop for 10–14s! SciMingo’s FREE “Scientists in class” training programme. #SciComm #Brussels
🌟 FR: 21/23 Apr + 6/7 May bit.ly/science-enfants
🌟 NL (2 spots left): bit.ly/wetenschap-kinderen
New data: chikungunya transmission starts at 13.8 °C, putting Belgium at risk in summer. 🇧🇪 VITO, BCC & Sciensano are building a climate service to predict where the threat is highest. As noted in the article, citizens are also urged to report mosquitoes via MEMO+
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By 2063, 94% of Belgian houses could face >40 days/year above 25°C. A KU Leuven report warns of rising heat stress, urging for dynamic shading and night ventilation to maintain comfort:
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Despite 238,158 amphibians saved by Belgian volunteers in 2025, climate-driven drought crushed reproduction rates. Juvenile crested newts in Merkske dropped from ~2,000 to 31. Long-term data from Flanders & Wallonia reveals these vital trends. #Biodiversity
🔗 www.natuurpunt.be/nieuws/dit-w...
Extreme floods hit France 🇫🇷 as atmospheric rivers drench saturated soils. This record moisture, fuelled by climate change, threatens our neighbours. Adopting sponge city designs is now vital for regional habitability. FR, paywall:
🦠 How can wastewater predict climate-driven disease outbreaks?
On 24 Feb at 14:00, Laura Van Poelvoorde from @sciensano.be presents new genomic tracking tools at our Centre. #ClimateCookiesAndCoffee #Sciensano #PublicHealth
📝 Register here: events.spacepole.be/event/266/
New policy brief on offshore wind: chemical emissions from corrosion protection need better regulation in the North Sea. 🇧🇪 Researchers from ILVO, RBINS & POM West-Vlaanderen reveal regulatory gaps and call for harmonised standards to protect marine ecosystems. 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s123...
Europe warms twice as fast as the global average. The @esabcc.bsky.social recommends planning for 2.8-3.3°C warming by 2100. Analysis of the 🇧🇪 2021 floods shows that better governance reduces losses. We need 'climate resilience by design'.
🔗 climate-advisory-board.europa.eu/reports-and-...
86% of our oxygen originated from the ocean. Yet deoxygenation is accelerating. The new GO₂DAT roadmap unifies global data to track this crisis. Huge credit to Belgian experts at Seascape, EMODnet, IODE, ULiège & VLIZ for leading the way!
🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1748...
