The Core Academy is glad to announce that we elect Doctor Carlos Nobre, a notable Earth System Scientist and Meteorologist, as a new fellow in the division of natural sciences.

Carlos A. Nobre is an Earth System scientist from Brazil. He graduated in Electronics Engineering from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil, in 1974 and obtained a PhD in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in 1983. He dedicated his scientific carrier mostly to Amazonian and climate science at Brazil’s National Institutes of Amazonian Research (INPA) and Space Research (INPE). He was Program Scientist of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA). He is a former National Secretary of R&D of Ministry of Science and Technology of Brazil and former President of the Federal Agency for Post-Graduate Education (CAPES). He is foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences, member of the Brazilian Academy of Science and of the World Academy of Science. He was awarded the Volvo Environmental Prize in 2016, the Von Humboldt Medal of EGU in 2010 and was one of the authors of IPCC AR4 awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He is presently a senior researcher with the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo and the creator of the Amazon Third Way-Amazonia 4.0 Initiative.

Doctor Nobres has been dedicating more than 40 years of his scientific career to Natural Sciences, especially to climate change and the Amazon. 

According to Doctor Nobres's short personal statement he presented to the core academy, "I feel very honored to have been elected as a Fellow of the Academy. I have been dedicating more than 40 years of my scientific career to Natural Sciences, especially to climate change and the Amazon. Urgently we have to look for nature-based solutions to protect the largest tropical forest of Earth. The Amazon is very close to a tipping poing and science must point out ways to save the Amazon forest, its rich biodiversity and also its Indigenous Peoples and local communities..."

For further online sources regarding Amazon 4.0 Project, please visit:

https://medium.com/funda%C3%A7%C3%A3o-fhc/amazon-4-0-project-defining-a-third-path-for-the-amazon-f0412305f066 

https://drclas.harvard.edu/event/amazon-40-%E2%80%93-defining-third-way-amazon  

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/opinion/amazon-rainforest-climate-change.html  

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/tag/industry-4-0/