Date: October 7, 2009
Location: Auditorium 3 – UFMG Institute of Exact Sciences

The meeting discusses issues related to the global climate and how it affects the Amazon and vice versa. The importance, influence, and interaction of climate change on the Amazon’s fauna and flora, and the forest’s role in these changes, will be discussed. The Amazon is seen as a central issue in the debate on the planet’s water resources.

Discussors: Professor Francisco Barbosa – UFMG Institute of Biological Sciences. Professor Carlos Afonso Nobre – National Institute for Space Research.