Climate change is in the heads and mouths of people all over the world. A lot has been said about its causes, possible effects, ways to mitigate them and the role of each person in this scenery, but little has been seen or heard that caused as much impact as the lecture that took place at Estação Ciência, in Sao Paulo, in the afternoon of 21 June. The audience, in its majority formed by young students, listened with attention to every word said by Quentin Cooper about the Cape Farewell Project.

Strange names of little known places like Spitsbergen and Svalbard became meaningful as the audience realized how the reality of those distant places in the Arctic, with extreme temperatures of minus 30º, can be so closely linked to the future of our country and of the world.

With a dynamic, clear and, why not? Passionate style, Quentin described the six-day expedition, with a crew of 20 people that included artists, scientists, teachers and journalists and that had as its main aim to offer to a non-specialised group of professionals an opportunity of using their creativity and communications skills to go beyond the frontiers of their professions and to absorb the concern about climate change and global warming.

It was more than 40 minutes of talk and impressive images, followed by a high number of questions that varied from the different sources of energy to the reserves of fresh water in the world. An excellent event that kept the audience close to the even after it had ended.