Jurist and researcher at the CIJ - Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Justice of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto. He graduated from the Universidade Católica do Porto, postgraduate at the Universidade de Coimbra, got his PhD in Human Ecology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and got his post-doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto with work on the legal status of climate.
He is the author of “The Earth Condominium – From the Climate Change to a New Juridic Conception of the Planet”, 2007, and editor of “SOS - Safe Operating Space Treaty: A new approach to manage our use of the Earth System”, 2016.  He is the founder and Executive Director of Common Home of Humanity (Casa Comum da Humanidade) and coordinator of the Task Force for the recognition of Climate as Common Heritage of Humankind. He is a Counsellor of CNADS - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Sustentável and of the Comité Científico do Conselho Português para a Saúde e Ambiente.
He received the Green Vision Inspiration Award in 2022, the Gold Medal of Merit by the city of Porto, and Inspiring Portugal Award in Social Economy in 2022.
 


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