Carlos Nobre, National Secretary for R&D Policies, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil, discusses ways of fixing the science-policy gap. Namely, his asked: You've worked both as a researcher and a policy maker, so from which side do we need to fix the science-policy gap? In what sense is your work on the Amazonian ecosystem a model for future action?

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Secretary-General of the United Nations hosted by UNESCO in Berlin on 30 and 31 January