Belgium community action
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Belgium.
News
‘We can live again’: Belgian nursing home residents hit the nightclubs, theguardian.com (May 02, 2024) - Belgian court orders 55% emissions cut from 1990 levels, theguardian.com (Dec 01, 2023)
- Brussels launches permanent citizens’ assembly on climate, knoca.eu (Nov 17, 2022)
- Riding the rail revival: how holidays by train are drawing the discerning traveller, positive.news (Mar 07, 2025)
- Carbon capture in Mediterranean soil: how farmland can trap greenhouse gases, theconversation.com (Jan 30, 2025)
- Despite 2024’s ‘greenlash’, the fight against climate breakdown can still be won. Here’s how. Björn Bremer, Jane Gingrich and Hanna Schwander, theguardian.com (Dec 06, 2024)
- ‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals, theguardian.com (Mar 12, 2025)
- Only seven countries worldwide meet WHO dirty air guidelines, study shows, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025) — Governments could clean their air with policies such as funding renewable energy projects and public transport; building infrastructure to encourage walking and cycling; and banning people from burning farm waste.
- Many cities are banning ads for airlines, SUVs and fossil fuels – and yours could be next, theconversation.com (Mar 10, 2025)
Video
Networks and sustainability initiatives
- Citizens Spring, citizen movement "to rebuild our local communities to be more resilient. Our goal is to develop and support various citizen initiatives that bring citizens together and that focus on sustainable solutions."
- Liege in Transition
- Transitie Tervuren
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Resources
Youth initiatives
Young Green (Dutch: Jong Groen) is the youth organisation of Groen, the Green party in Flanders and Brussels.
Visions
Community involvement
- G1000, Belgian platform for democratic innovation. "We develop and support new forms of citizen participation. We are active in municipalities, cities, regions and on national level. We are also involved in various international networks." added 15:10, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
Community energy
Climate action
Ethical consumerism
Food activism
- Ceinture Aliment-Terre liégoise - (fr, nl, de)
- www.fian.be, Foodfirst Information & Action Network
- PermaFungi
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
- RREUSE represents social enterprises active in re-use, repair and recycling
- Repair Cafés, Repair Together
Sharing
About Belgium
Past events
- Mar 21 - 24, 2019, Citizen Spring
- Sep 18, 2016, Car Free Sunday in Brussels
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west. Belgium covers an area of 30,689 km2 (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.7 million; its population density of 383/km2 (990/sq mi) ranks 22nd in the world and sixth in Europe. The capital and largest metropolitan region is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven.
Belgium is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a complex federal system structured on regional and linguistic grounds. The country is divided into three highly autonomous regions: the Flemish Region (Flanders) in the north, the Walloon Region (Wallonia) in the south, and the Brussels-Capital Region in the middle. Belgium is also home to two main linguistic communities: the Dutch-speaking Flemish Community, which constitutes about 60 percent of the population, and the French-speaking French Community, which constitutes about 40 percent of the population; a small German-speaking Community, comprising around one percent of the population, exists in the East Cantons. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political conflicts are reflected in its complex system of governance, made up of six different governments. Belgium is a developed country with an advanced high-income economy. It is one of the six founding members of the European Union, with its capital of Brussels serving as the de facto capital of the EU, hosting the official seats of the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, the European Council, and one of two seats of the European Parliament (the other being Strasbourg). Brussels also hosts the headquarters of many major international organizations, such as NATO.
Near you
External links
- Brussels Environment, administration of the environment and the energy of the Region of Brussels-Capital