Walter Leal Filho is Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is Initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 700 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.
Laís Viera Trevisan is Project Manager and Research Associate at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Her research interests are sustainability, technology and innovation for sustainable development, smart campuses and education for sustainability. She leads two research groups in the sustainability field: the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) and the European-North American Sustainability Research Consortium (ENASRC).
Gabriel Costa is a Meteorologist (UFPA), with Ph.D. in Sciences (Applied Ecology, USP) currently effective Professor at Universidade Federal do oeste do Pará (Ufopa, Pará State- Brazil). Research interest in biosphere-atmosphere interactions, with special emphasis on the energy fluxes, Greenhouse gases emissions, renewable and sustainable energy, biogeochemistry cycles over tropical ecosystems. This includes the interaction between climate and health correlations, by air pollution and thermal comfort.
Ismar Borges de Lima is Senior Professor, Level V: State University of Roraima—UERR, Brazil (2012–present). Director in Brazil for the Latin American Foundation for Research on Science, Nature and Tourism—RECINATUR Foundation (2014–present). Adjunct-Lecturer and postdoc Studies at Southern Cross University (SCU, Australia, 2016–2019). Ph.D. holder by the Waikato University, New Zealand (2004–2008). Master’s degree in international relations at the International University of Japan—IUJ (2000–2004), Internship at UNESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand in 2001. Professional training at the Radio Nederland Training Centre, The Netherlands (1995). Academic expedition and seminars in Africa: Botswana, Mozambique, Kenya, Swaziland, and South Africa (2018).