Climate Change Webinars

Ever felt the struggle of finding the delicate balance between effectively communicating about sensitive or loaded topics while maintaining a nuanced approach? In this webinar, Liesbeth Aerts (Infopunt Proefdieronderzoek, Information Point on Animal Research) and Matthias Meersschaert (Belgian Climate Centre) will share their expertise and experience in effectively communicating about delicate subject like climate change or the use of animals in research. Through an interactive discussion, they will explore the pressures and hesitations scientists face in communicating effectively about similar delicate topics, identify common communication pitfalls, and share strategies to overcome these challenges and enhance engagement!

This webinar addresses challenging societal issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, health and social inequities. The focus is on integrative research approaches that minimize trade-offs and find synergies to ensure a safer, fairer and healthier world. It highlights experiences from a range of integrative projects, profiling barriers, enablers, benefits and challenges of designing integrative research for policy and practice. Speakers: Donald Warne, Alastair Brown, Margot W. Parkes, Adetoun Mustapha, Ramon Lorenzo Luis Rosa Guinto, Anna Stewart Ibarra, Manushi Sharma