Conférence – From Climate Crisis to Transformation: Rethinking Pathways to Sustainability

Dans le cadre de sa semaine verte, ESPOL organise le jeudi 12 février 2026 une conférence avec panel pour discuter des chemins vers la transformation durable dans un contexte de crise écologique.

Avec :

• Joost DE MOOR, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique
• Joseph EARSOM, ESPOL, Université catholique de Lille
• Lisanne GROEN, Open Universiteit, Pays-Bas

Résumé : The climate crisis is increasingly understood not only as an environmental emergency, but as a profound social, political, and economic challenge. Addressing it therefore requires more than incremental policy responses; it calls for transformative change. This panel discussion examines what “transformation” means in the context of the climate crisis and how pathways towards sustainability can be rethought under conditions of urgency and uncertainty. Bringing together perspectives from public policy, global governance, and social movement studies, the panel will explore competing visions of climate transformation, the objectives they pursue, and the political choices they entail. We will discuss the roles of institutions, policies, and societal actors in enabling or constraining transformative change, as well as the tensions and trade-offs involved. By critically examining the objectives, pathways, and levers of climate transformation, the panel aims to connect debates on sustainable futures with the question of how climate transformation can be translated into actionable and systemic change.

Joost DE MOOR is Research professor at FNRS/UC Louvain (ISPOLE), Belgium. Joseph EARSOM is Associate Professor in Environmental and Climate Policy at ESPOL, Université catholique de Lille. Lisanne GROEN is Assistant Professor in international environmental governance at the Open Universiteit, The Netherlands.