Climate Change Risks in Brazil (PDF)

Carlos Afonso Nobre, holds an Electronic Engineering degree by the Institute for Aeronautic Technology (ITA) and Ph.D. in Meteorology by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT. He was president of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - CAPES - from the Ministry of Education (MoE). He acted as the director of the National Centre for Monitoring and Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN) and of the Secretariat of Research and Development Policies and Programmes (SEPED) of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation - MCTI. He started his professional career at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and then as researcher of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). His main interests are on the fields of climatology, global change, Amazonia and sustainable development. He is currently a member of the High Level Scientific Advisory Panel on Global Sustainability of the UN Secretary General. He is a foreign member ofthe United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and Academy of Sciences for Developing Nations (TWAS). He is a member of the Joint Steering Committee of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). He was one of the authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which in 2007 won the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Al Gore.
José Antônio Marengo, has a degree in Physics and Meteorology and a Master's in Land and Water Resource Engineering from the National Agrarian University in Lima, Peru, as well as a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1991) in the USA. He did a post-doctorate at NASA-GISS and Columbia University in New York and at the Florida State University, in Florida (USA) in climate modelling. He was senior researcher of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) between 1995 and 2014. He is member of several United Nations international panels and work groups on global changes in Brazil and