Louise Knops (ULB/iiTSE), Emilien Paulis, and Tom Bauler (ULB/iiTSE) will present their paper titled: “How We Feel About Climate Change and Why It Matters for Democracy: An Empirical Investigation of Democratic Preferences and Climate-Emotions in Belgium.” This research, based on data from The Social Study, examines the relationships between emotions evoked by climate change and the democratic preferences of Belgian citizens.