Carlos A. Nobre

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Title: The Amazon near a Tipping Point. The Urgent Need of Nature-Based Solutions.

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Biography

Carlos A. Nobre is an Earth System scientist from Brazil. He obtained an Engineering degree in Electronics Engineering from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil, in 1974 and a PhD in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in 1983. He initiated his professional carrier in 1976 at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), in Manaus, Brazil, as research assistant. He was a researcher with Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) for over 30 years, where he helped to establish a modern weather and climate forecasting research center (CPTEC-INPE), and was its Director from 1991 through 2003. He created in 2008 INPE’s Center for Earth System Science. More recently (2011-2014), he was Ministry of Science and Technology’s National Secretary for R&D Policy, where he created in 2011 the National Center for Monitoring and Alerts of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN). He was President of Brazil’s Federal Agency for Post-Graduate Education (CAPES) in 2015-2016. He was one of the architects of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) and LBA’s Program Scientist from 1996 to 2002. He was thesis supervisor of over 30 PhD and MSc students and has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific publications. He was chair of International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Scientific Steering Committee (2005-2011). He has served in many international scientific committees, such as the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Science Advisory Board on Global Sustainability (2013-2016). Currently, he is a member of the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and of the Rockfeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. He has participated in many IPCC reports.

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