Starr Forum: Amazon Burning. Covid-19. Ghosts of Climate Future?
When:
Friday, Apr 24, 2020 1:00p -
2:00p
Friday, Apr 24, 2020 1:00p -
2:00p
Where:
Online event
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, Social Good, Virtual & Streaming
Event website:
http://calendar.mit.edu/event/AmazonBurning
View the webcast at https://mit.zoom.us/j/297256705
Carlos Nobre, Brazil’s leading expert on the Amazon and climate change, discusses the global fight to save our planet and lessons we can learn from the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
About the speaker:
Carlos Nobre chairs the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Scientific Committee, is the director of the Center for Earth System Science and Senior Scientist at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) of Brazil, is executive secretary of the Brazilian Research Network on Global Climate Change (Rede CLIMA), and is scientific director of the National Institute for Climate Change Research. His research interests include tropical meteorology, climate modeling, global environmental change, and biosphere-atmosphere interactions in Amazonia. He received a PhD in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
About the discussant:
TBA
Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), MIT Brazil Program
Free & open to the public
For more information or accessibility accommodations please contact [email protected]. Also watch it on Facebook live at http://bit.ly/FacebookCIS or on-demand on YouTube at http://bit.ly/CISYouTube.
Sign up for Starr Forum emails to get notified about upcoming events at http://bit.ly/StarrForumEmail
A full listing of Starr Forums is available at http://bit.ly/UpcomingSF
