Environment

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

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

She has been a journalist since 1998, the year she completed her course in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Minho, before joining the editorial office at the «Publico» newspaper. She started working in the local section, where she wrote about planning and urbanism, then moved to the economy section, where she worked on topics such as public investment and housing policies.
She left the newspaper in 2011 to realise her personal project of a trip around the world as a family – reported weekly on the pages of «Fugas» magazine. She never stopped writing in the «Público», while also working with several national publications (such as «Evasões» and «TimeOut»). She was co-author of the Hotelandia project, where good examples of Portuguese hotels are published, and she returned to writing in the «Público» full-time in 2015. In 2021, she left the newspaper again to devote herself to the journalistic project «Faces of the Village», a platform where the stories of all those who contribute to depopulation not becoming an inexorable trend are published, reporting the inspiring cases of – young and old – people who struggle to reverse it.