Environment

Professor and researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico and at Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability. At the same time, he has had a consultancy firm for more than 30 years, in the area of hydrology and water resources.
He devotes particular interest to the challenges of water management in a context of increasing scarcity and uncertainty, as a result of economic transformation and climate change.
He has a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University (USA) and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico.

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Studies and a Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems, she worked as a producer of content for radio and television, directed documentaries and wrote fiction scripts. She is a founding member and vice-president of the Circular Economy Portugal association – CEP.

His background is in architecture. His photographic survey of Portugal gave rise to a photographic archive of more than 1,880,000 images. The highlights of his published work include: «Portugal – The Flavour of the Land» (1997–98), «Portugal Heritage» (2007–08), «Portugal Light and Shadow» (2012) and the trilogy made up of «Meandering Along”, «After the Road» and «Longer Journey» (2020). He has worked with important names in Portuguese culture, such as Mário de Cesariny, Ruy Belo, Maria Gabriela Llansol and Miguel Torga. He is editor of the Infinite City blog. He has been holding exhibitions since 1987 and regularly participates in pedagogical activities, conferences and round tables.

A writer and journalist specialising in the environment, he has been researching climate change and responsiveness to a rapidly changing environment for ProPublica, an independent investigative journalism newsroom in New York, which collaborates with the New York Times Magazine.
He is a 2022 Emerson Collective Fellow at New America and has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to write his next book on climate migration. He also teaches narrative writing on climate change at the University of California, Berkeley.
His most recent research includes a three-part series on global climate migration, an analysis of the global palm oil trade, the climatic factors behind pandemics and how climate change is evidencing a global water shortage. Another of his series on the causes of water scarcity in the American West, «Killing the Colorado», was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize and received the top honour from the National Academy of Sciences.

Last updated: October 2022

American theoretical physicist and director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University. From 2009 to 2011, he was Undersecretary for Science at the Department of Energy in Barak Obama's administration. He is a renowned expert on energy and public policy.

Last updated: September 2022

Principal investigator at the Dom Luis Institute at the University of Lisbon and a visiting professor at the Department of Geographic Engineering, Geophysics and Energy, both at the University of Lisbon School of Sciences.
He is the coordinator of the Portuguese team in CORDEX (Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment) and takes part in several other international research projects on climate change. He is also scientific coordinator of the EEA Grants project «National Roadmap for Adaptation 2100 –Portuguese Territorial Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the 21st century» (RNA 2100).

Last updated: September 2023

Finnish biologist and executive director of RePlanet, an environmental NGO that seeks science-based solutions to climate change and biodiversity collapse, without losing sight of the need to eliminate poverty. Interestingly, this environmental activist played American Football, winning two bronze medals at the World Championships.

last update: September 2022

She is Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford, UK, and Director of the «Nature-Based Solutions» initiative.
She has over 20 years of research experience in a variety of ecosystems around the world and advises governments, the UN and companies on nature-based solutions.

American environmentalist, writer and journalist specialising in the impact of global warming on the planet.
He is a Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has won the Gandhi Peace Prize, as well as honorary degrees from 20 colleges and universities.
He founded and leads 350.org, the first global climate campaign, which has organised protests against climate change on every continent, including Antarctica. He also founded Third Act, which mobilises people over 60 to take action on climate and justice.
His 1989 book, «The End of Nature», is considered the first book for the general public on climate change and has been published in 24 languages. He is the author of 20 books, and his work appears regularly in the press, from the New Yorker to Rolling Stone.

last update: September 2022

He has a PhD in Sociology and is an ISCTE professor and researcher. He is the coordinator of the Thematic Section on Classes, Inequalities and Public Policies of the Portuguese Sociological Association, a member of the Inequalities Observatory, deputy director of the Mundos Sociais publishing house, national advisor to the European Science programme Horizon Europe and scientific coordinator of the Observatory of Popular Clubs and Associations. He researches social inequalities, social classes, collective action, work, well-being, education, development, the welfare state, public policies, the digital society and artificial intelligence.

Last updated: January 2024