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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

Associate professor in the Department of Earth and Energy Sciences and principal investigator at the Dom Luiz Institute (IDL), both part of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
He holds a PhD in Physics and has devoted the last three decades to the study of climate modelling, climate change, adaptation and mitigation, energy, sustainability and artificial intelligence.
He sits on advisory boards such as that of the Center for Sustainable Finance at Católica-Lisboa, Fidelidade’s Impact Center for Climate Change, and the Pink Circle Cities Network.
He has published over 150 scientific articles and delivered hundreds of international and public outreach presentations.
He has been awarded the University of Lisbon/Caixa Geral de Depósitos Prize (2020), the FCUL Earth Sciences Prize (2022, 2024) and the FCUL Prize for Scientific Merit (2023).
In 2025, he co-founded and became CEO of PHAIR-EARTH, a climate risk assessment start-up.

Last update: november 2026

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

Biologist, PhD and Aggregate in Environmental Sciences from Nova University Lisbon. A pioneer in microplastics research, she is a participant in several groups of experts, both national and international, in the assessment of Ocean pollution by marine litter and microplastics, and has coordinated several projects. Founder and president of the Portuguese Marine Litter Association, she promotes and works on science dissemination and communication activities for society.

Chairman of Águas de Portugal.
He previously served as Minister for Public Works, Transport and Housing and as Mayor of Lisbon.
He was also Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at NOVA University Lisbon and holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the same institution.

Last update: june 2026

A professional photographer since 1986, he works in the industrial, engineering/architecture and editorial areas. In 1994, he co-founded Volta ao Mundo magazine and was its director of photography until 2004, reporting from more than 50 countries. He held the same position in Evasões magazine between 1999 and 2002. He is responsible for several albums and exhibitions, his work is published in a number of national and international media outlets and present in various collections.

Last updated: June 2020