6:00 pm: Welcome
Moderated by Arnaud RUYSSEN, journalist
8:30 pm: Walking dinner
Sandrine DIXSON-DECLEVE, co-présidente du Club de Rome jusqu'en 2024, spécialiste des politiques climatiques et du développement durable.
Sandrine Dixson-Declève is a Belgian thought leader and solution provider specializing in climate change, sustainable development, sustainable finance and complex systems. She was co-chair of the Club of Rome from 2018 to 2024. A graduate in International Relations and French from the University of California, Davis, she also holds a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Brussels. Her career has involved bringing together business leaders, policy-makers, academics and NGOs to tackle complex challenges.
His talk will be entitled "A systemic transformation: the prerequisite for creating a better future".
Professeur à l'Université de Stanford et à l’UCLouvain, expert mondial des interactions entre activités humaines et environnement
Geographer and professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and Stanford University, Eric Lambin conducts research on the interactions between human activity and the natural environment. In recent years, he has also been Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Commission. He is a member of several Academies of Science and has been awarded the Francqui 2009, Blue Planet 2019 and Volvo Environment 2014 prizes. He was recently awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) on the territorial implications of the energy transition. His publications include Une Ecologie du Bonheur and Le Consommateur Planétaire, both published by Editions Le Pommier.
In his talk, he will pose the question: How can humanity continue to develop while respecting planetary boundaries? While the solutions for a transition to a sustainable society are well known, few of them are being implemented on a scale large enough to bring about a profound transformation of socio-economic systems. This paper will first introduce the concept of planetary frontiers. It will then examine how systemic change has been conceptualized by various scientific disciplines. Finally, it will present some theories of change for a transition to a sustainable society, drawing five lessons for achieving this transition.
The Laboratoire des Transitions is a new Centre d'Appui à la Recherche et à l'Enseignement (CARE) designed to promote collaborations between all scientific disciplines within the University of Liège and to amplify interactions with civil society in order to mark out trajectories towards just transitions and a society in tune with planetary limits.
Cette journée d’échanges sera l’occasion d’examiner les rapports de pouvoir qui traversent l’écologie en milieu urbain.
Alain Aspect dédicace son ouvrage "Si Einstein avait su"', en collaboration avec la librairie Pax, à l'occasion de sa venue pour une conférence intitulée "Des concepts aux applications : les deux révolutions quantiques".
Alain Aspect, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022, Professor at the Institut d'Optique of the Université Paris-Saclay, will be at ULiège on March 09, 2026.
