Join the PLAN-B Online Workshop on Noise Pollution & Biodiversity!
PLAN-B will host an online workshop dedicated to noise pollution, its ecological impacts, and the upcoming Noise Pollution Policy Brief on Wednesday, 26 November 2025, from 14:15 to 17:15 CET.
This event will bring together experts to examine how noise pollution affects biodiversity and to discuss practical mitigation strategies through policy and conservation action. The interactive workshop will highlight innovative approaches to reduce environmental noise, safeguard terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and integrate noise mitigation into biodiversity conservation frameworks.
- When: 26 November 2025
- Where: online
- Resistration here.
14:15 to 14:20 Welcome, by Geert Van Hoorick, PLAN-B
14.20 to 14.40: AquaPLAN Noise/ALAN exposure experiments in offshore environments, by Lise Doksaeter, AquaPLAN
14:40 to 15.00: Characteristics of noise, how it affects biodiversity, and how to mitigate it, by Dick Botteldooren and Timothy Van Renterghem, PLAN-B
15:00 to 15.20: Effects of noise on certain species, habitats and ecosystems, and mitigation (terrestrial), by Reinhard Klenke, PLAN-B
15.20 to 15.30: Break
15.30 to 15.50: The regulatory framework, and some policy recommendations from a legal perspective, by Geert Van Hoorick and Hendrik Schoukens, PLAN-B
15.50 to 16.10: Impacts of transport noise on natural areas and access to quiet green spaces, by Eulalia Peris, European Environment Agency, and Jaume Fons, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
16.10 to 16.30: Social perceptions of noise pollution, by Graeme Sherriff and Michael Lomas, PLAN-B
16.30 to 17.10: Discussion in relation to the upcoming policy brief, moderation by Yana Yakushina, PLAN-B
17.10-17.15: Closing the workshop, by Geert Van Hoorick
Please, register here free