Mr. Santos is a Professor and Researcher in FCUL. He was delegate to the Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and was Review Editor for the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC. The author of more than a hundred articles in areas of nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, and global change, Mr. Santos has recently published a considerable number of reports and articles covering climate change and its impacts. He was the coordinator of the SIAM Project, “Climate Change in Portugal. Scenarios, Impacts and Adaptation Measures” and PI of several research projects in the area of climate change and environment. Presently, he is the President of the Conselho Nacional do Ambiente e do Desenvolvimento Sustentável (National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development) (CNADS).