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The Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC), the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), and the Regional Office for Latin America and Caribbean and the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) are organizing the I st Brazilian Symposium on Global Environmental Change . The Symposium will be held at the Rio Othon Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 11 and 12 th , 2007, and has the following main objectives: (i) Present the State of the Art of environmental science in Brazil to academic, governmental, corporate and non-governmental sectors; (ii) Identify relevant knowledge gaps related to the threat global environment change at the national level; (iii) Promote a forum to discuss the launch of a Brazilian National Committee on Global Environmental Change within the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Topics included in the invited contributions are: Climate Change Impacts in Brazil, Global Environment Change and Biodiversity, Biogeochemical Cycles; and Climate and the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. The topics will be discussed by experts who have made important contributions to the effort of understanding global environment change and its impacts in Brazil. Carlos A. Nobre (INPE) Carlos A. Joly (UNICAMP) Daniel Hogan (UNICAMP) José L. Marengo (INPE) Luiz A.Martinelli (CENA-USP) Paulo de Góes (ABC) Scientific Committee, I st Brazilian Symposium on Global Environmental Change |
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