BAS Webinars | Pandemic and Deforestation [BEST MOMENTS]
Channel: Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Date: 2021-05-06

The Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) invited to its second transdisciplinary webinar: the doctor and researcher Pedro Vasconcelos, who addressed the influence of deforestation on the spread of zoonoses such as COVID-19; the biologist Mercedes Bustamente who linked the pandemic to the worsening of global warming and climate change; and social scientist Elisa Reis, who detailed the social, political and economic developments in the post-coronavirus world.

The debate was mediated by the president of ABC, Luiz Davidovich.