Carlos Nobre is a Brazilian Earth System scientist with a PhD in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Nobre’s work focuses on the Amazon and its impacts on the Earth system, publishing over 200 scientific papers. He chaired the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA). He was National Secretary for Research and Development Policies at the Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation of Brazil and President of Brazil’s Agency for Post-Graduate Education (CAPES). He has been a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is honoured as a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
