Antonio Donato Nobre
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Antonio Donato Nobre is a scientist and an activist for a cause he embraced 36 years ago when he began researching the Amazon rainforest. Antonio was a senior researcher for the National Institute of Amazonia Research (INPA) and the Brazilian Space Agency INPE. He is the author of the 2014 report ‘’The Climate Future of the Amazon Rainforest”, has given several TED talks and is one of the scientists studying the biotic pump mechanism on how forests are rain makers. He is currently involved in large projects to reforest deserts in the Middle East and launched the concept of a Great Green Wall for the Amazon to avert the dieback of the forest.