Carlos Nobre, is member of UN Scientific Advisory Board for Global Sustainability and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He was the Director of the Center for Earth System Science and Senior Scientist at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) of Brazil, Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Research Network on Global Climate Change (Rede CLIMA), Scientific Director of the National Institute for Climate Change Research. He chaired the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA).