On this page, you'll find a report on all actions and activities initiated at the University of Namur in connection with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #13: "Action on climate change".

Social impact and actions

Institutional initiatives

Green deal - Sustainable food

UNamur is committed to the 6 principles of the Green Deal :

  1. Local and seasonal produce,
  2. Environmentally and animal-friendly products
  3. Fair trade products
  4. Healthy, balanced and tasty meals
  5. Reducing food waste and waste
  6. Social inclusion

L'Arsenal - University Restaurant

Students benefit from a special rate for the hot dish of the day (€4) served at the Arsenal university restaurant.

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La Solidarithèque

La Solidarithèque is a solidarity grocery store whose aim is to support higher education students facing financial difficulties. It is created and managed by the social services of UNamur, HEAJ and HEPN in partnership with the Association pour la Solidarité Étudiante en Belgique (ASEB).

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The CoKot

This project kot (KàP) supported by UNamur offers solidarity meals for students. More info on the Facebook page...

Cap sur les KàPs series in the newsroom: The CoKot

Annual flea market at the old orchard of the Haugimont estate

Each year, UNamur proposes an event at the old orchard of the Haugimont estate. Numerous activities are offered throughout the day: marauding with free marauding bags, explanations on the management of the organic orchard, children's activities, information stands, guided and commented walks...

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Les Ruches du Carmel

Four beehives have been installed with the dual intention of contributing to local biodiversity and offering a new educational tool for university students.

Information and awareness-raising actions

2022 | Grande conférence namuroise | From migration to mobilisation: when the climate gets us moving

15/11/2022 | Samuel Lietaer is a specialist in environmental social sciences. His main research interests are climate change adaptation issues, human mobility linked to environmental and climate change, and sustainable development policies in low-income environments. Learn more

2022 | TEDx UNamur (Re)Shape the future

TEDx conferences are a simple concept. Its slogan is "Ideas worth spreading"! In short, you choose a theme, you invite a dozen speakers from a wide range of backgrounds and each of them has a maximum of 18 minutes to deliver an innovative and inspiring message to the public! Learn more

2021 | Science Congress

Laurent Houssiau, Professor at the Department of Physics at UNamur and Adélaïde Charlier, activist from Namur and co-founder of the Belgian Youth for Climate movement, co-hosted a conference at the Science Congress. Two points of view and two generations converging in the same direction: raising awareness of the need to act now to stop climate change! Read more

2021 | Climate: no more doubt

As part of Professor Xavier Thunis' "Environmental Law and Sustainable Development" course (Faculty of Law), Professor Laurent Houssiau (Department of Physics) recorded a video on the reality of climate change. With graphs, scientific data and figures, he explains that a positive outcome for humanity implies a radical change in our habits. Find out more

The Chair in Sustainable Development and Transition

This UNamur Chair is dedicated to the issue of sustainable development and transition and the ethical issues it raises. It aims to raise awareness and inform the academic community and the general public. Learn more

The University Forum for International Development Cooperation (FUCID)

As an NGO within a university, the University Forum for International Development Cooperation (FUCID) aims to be a place of meeting, expression, debate, advocacy, awareness and commitment, action, militancy and utopia. A network of men and women sharing the same values of solidarity and citizenship.  It is rooted in the vision of UNamur and in this framework participates in the overall objective of the university, namely to train responsible actors in society for a more just, sustainable and equitable world, with respect for human rights.

Small gestures for the climate

This study, carried out by FUCID, is a way of understanding why, and of exploring the following questions in greater depth: How can we explain such a passion among young people for small, individual gestures? What is it that prompts them to turn first to this type of response to the ecological crisis we are going through? Does this type of action make it possible to understand and combat the causes effectively? Why is the rhetoric of eco-actions so heavily criticised by one section of society - rightly, wrongly or both - while being promoted by another? Are these small actions really the solution? Or should they be abandoned?

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Research institute

Institute of Life, Earth and Environment (ILEE)

Research at the Institute of Life, Earth and Environment (ILEE) is relevant to several of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For example, we study the impact of multiple stressors (chemical, physical or pathogenic) and/or pollutants (pesticides, pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, neurotoxins, atmospheric residues) on organisms but also on ecosystems, and solutions are sought to strengthen their resistance and resilience and/or limit harmful products (e.g. immuno-stimulation, search for alternative pharmaceuticals).

Furthermore, by prospecting and characterising geological resources (water, metals and other raw materials) and by integrating human use over the centuries, from Antiquity to the current Anthropocene, ILEE contributes to the sustainable management of natural resources, including architecture and art. The transition to a more sustainable agriculture is investigated through the concept of ecosystem services via mapping, modelling and integrated assessment. The consequences of climate change on human migration or the interactions between the different agents responsible for the transmission of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases are also at the heart of ILEE's research. 

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Research

One project among many: LUCID

Joint research project to understand the impact of land use, and corn in particular, on people in the Philippines. Find out more

Discover all publications related to the Sustainable Development Goal "Action on climate change" on the UNamur research portal.

Sustainable research

Chairs

Education

Sustainable education
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Objectifs durables anglais

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To find out more and discover a series of examples of sustainable development initiatives and actions taken at the University of Namur, visit the different objectives.

SDG #12: Responsible consumption and production
SDG #14: Aquatic life