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Solve Climate by 2030 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

YSI Solve Climate by 2030 Webinar - Rio

Start time:

April 7, 2020 @ 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm

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Speakers

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Ana Toni

Executive Director from the Institute for Climate and Society (iCS)

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Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young

Professor at the Economics Institute (UFRJ) and Director of GEMA/UFRJ

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Alfredo Sirkis

Executive Director of the Brazil Climate Center

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Description

This event will be streamed by Facebook. See the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/centrobrasilnoclima/posts/?ref=page_internal

The webinar will take place on April 7, 2020 at 6 pm (Rio de Janeiro time)/5 pm (EST).
This event will be held in Portuguese.

Description:

The Young Scholars Initiative is partnering with the Solve Climate by 2030 (http://www.solveclimateby2030.org/), where simultaneous webinars will be held in the USA and abroad, discussing how we could fight against severe consequences from climate change by acting today.

In line with this initiative, the Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development Group (GEMA) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and YSI will host a webinar discussing Climate Change solutions in Brazil.

We are delighted to invite as guest speakers:

Ana Toni – Executive Director from the Institute for Climate and Society (iCS)
Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young – Professor at the Economics Institute (UFRJ) and Director of GEMA/UFRJ
Alfredo Sirkis – Jornalist, writer and former congressman from Rio de Janeiro state

Alexandre Batista (Moderator) – Project Coordinator at Centro Brasil no Clima and PhD candidate in Public Policies (Environment) at UFRJ

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*Esse evento será transmitido por Facebook. *Veja o link abaixo:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/centrobrasilnoclima/posts/?ref=page_internal

O webinar será realizado em 7 de abril de 2020 às 18:00 (horário do Rio de Janeiro) / 17:00 (EST).
Este evento será realizado em português.

Hosted by Working Group(s):

Attendees

Rok Piletic

Elena Piedra-Bonilla

Rafael Campos

Heske van Doornen

Nathaly Rivera

William Pacheco

Théo Venturelli

Suleiman Bushnaq

Alexandre Kotchergenko Batista

Mohammed Seid

Felipe Botelho Tavares

Richard Hurt

Charlie Cheesman

Alexandre Batista

Taiwo Felix Oyelade

Marjory Gombe

Jakob Sparn

Nazli Koseoglu

Jheelum Sarkar

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