The concern about the role of soils in the global carbon budget and the effects of soil organic carbon (SOC) decline on soil quality has been incorporated in international treaties. Initiatives such as ‘4 per mille Soils for Food Security and Climate’ or ‘The Farm to Fork’ strategy are being implemented in the context of Paris Agreement to mitigate climate change.

After their formation, the Earth and Mars might have been very similar but today, contrary to the Earth, Mars is a very dry planet without plate tectonics and with a tenuous atmosphere of CO2 mainly. Understanding the structure of the interior of Mars is very important to provide new information about the prime structure and evolution of this planet.

Cosmogenic radionuclides accumulate at the Earth’ surface as a function of time and depth.

Polar ice cores are a unique archive of past climate change. Both Antarctica and Greenland have transformed our understanding of how the Earth System works. An ongoing European project in Antarctica will provide unique information on the grand transition from the 40,000- to 100,000- year cyclicity of ice ages.

Daisy de Hults, Experte communication sur les crises environnnementales au SPF Health, Environment,  présentera " Communication on the Environmental crises by the Belgian federal administration: challenges and aims" 

Since 2012, hydrological and sedimentary data are collected on an agricultural catchment in Wallonia. In the meantime, two other catchments have been instrumented. The data of these 3 catchments have been collected for all this time and the main objective is to compile, process and analyse them.

Young volcanic soils developed on tephra deposits have an outstanding agronomical potential and, as such, attract a large and dense population that draws its livelihood from their use. However, being collocated with Holocene volcanoes, agriculture on volcanic soils is threatened by widespread deposition of tephra during explosive eruptions.

Edouard Crespeigne, Expert environnemental et social au mécanisme de gestion des plaintes, Banque européenne d'investissement. presentera" ESG – Environmental Social and Governance - in Development Finance."

A major concern for sustainable development in the Tropical Andes is the growing imbalance between ecosystem service supply and demand, particularly with regard to freshwater ecosystem services.

Characterization of soil electromagnetic properties has always been an important task for hydrology, meteorology, environmental sciences, agriculture etc.