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José GOLDEMBERG (Co-chair, São Paolo, Brazil) has a PhD in nuclear physics (1954). He was Rector of the University of São Paolo (1986-90), Federal Minister of Science and Technology (1990-91), and Federal Minister of Education (1991-92) and has been the Minister of Environment of São Paolo since 2002. While Brazil's Minister of Science and Technology, Goldemberg persuaded President Collor de Mello to end Brazil's nuclear-weapons program, which led Argentina to shut its program down as well under monitoring by a joint Argentine-Brazil inspectorate. Goldemberg is best known for his work on global energy (including the future of nuclear energy and its consequences) and environment issues, which resulted in him being a co-recipient of Sweden's Volvo Environmental Prize in 2000.
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