AMAZON UPRISING
How close is the Amazon to a point of no return? In this Atmosphere Commons episode of Voice of Commons, host Giulia Foscari speaks with climatologist Carlos Nobre — IPCC author and co-chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon — as the world races toward COP30 in Belém. Nobre warns that deforestation and global heating are driving the forest toward a tipping point beyond which it could collapse into degraded savannah, flip from carbon sink to carbon source, and weaken the “flying rivers” that sustain continental food and water security. From organised crime, illegal mining, and pandemics to Tropical Forests Forever, Indigenous stewardship, and a standing-forest bioeconomy, this urgent conversation makes clear: saving the Amazon this decade is a precondition for a stable climate.
Carlos Nobre is a leading Brazilian Earth system scientist specializing in Amazon research and its global impacts. He co-chairs the Science Panel for the Amazon and directs the Amazonia 4.0 initiative to promote a standing-forest bioeconomy. He contributed to several IPCC reports, including the Nobel Peace Prize–winning 2007 report, and chaired the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia. He served as Brazil’s National Secretary for R&D Policies and as President of CAPES, and earned his PhD in Meteorology from MIT. Carlos was born at 312 parts per million carbon dioxide in the Atmosphere.
Carlos Nobre is a leading Brazilian Earth system scientist specializing in Amazon research and its global impacts. He co-chairs the Science Panel for the Amazon and directs the Amazonia 4.0 initiative to promote a standing-forest bioeconomy. He contributed to several IPCC reports, including the Nobel Peace Prize–winning 2007 report, and chaired the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia. He served as Brazil’s National Secretary for R&D Policies and as President of CAPES, and earned his PhD in Meteorology from MIT. Carlos was born at 312 parts per million carbon dioxide in the Atmosphere.
The Race to COP30 — Protecting the Forest That Holds the Sky
Carlos Nobre hosted by Giulia Foscari.
Broadcast from the Voice of Commons’ Planetary Embassy, in Chicago.
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Broadcast from the Voice of Commons’ Planetary Embassy, in Chicago.
VOICE OF COMMONS, a project by the agency for change UNLESS.Developed under the Patronage of UNESCO, with the recognition of The European Space Agency and endorsed by United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
Episode produced as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennale: SHIFT – Architecture in Times of Radical Change
Sound Identity UNLESS & PASE Platform, in collaboration with Limn.AI
Sound Production PASE Platform.