In the debut episode of our new mini-series "TUM Global" we speak to Professor David Lapola, a research scientist at the Center for Meteorological and Climatic Research Applied to Agriculture of the University of Campinas – UNICAMP in Brazil. A key partner of TUM, we discuss the interdisciplinary and international research project AmazonFACE which Professor Lapola is coordinating to discover what the Amazon forest might look like in fifty or even one hundred years if the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continues to rise.

Could we hit a "tipping point" in the Amazon's ability to act as a carbon sink? ... and how can international cooperation help us to understand and be better prepared for the effects?

Please see full program notes: www.lll.tum.de/podcast

Music:
"Beauty Inside" by Soundroll
"Celebration" by Zac Nelson

Artwork:
Katharina Quitter