Sérgio Campos Trindade (Rio de Janeiro, 14 December 1940 — New York, 18 March 2020) was a Brazilian chemical engineer and researcher, specialist in renewable energies and consultant in sustainable business. Trindade was the coordinating lead author for a chapter of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Methodological and Technical Issues in Technology Transfer, in 2000; the IPCC as an organisation would later win the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize through the work of IPCC contributors. He was a member of the Scientific Committee for Environmental Problems, agency associated with UN for Education, Science and Culture (Unesco).
Trindade graduated in chemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and obtained a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He died at age 79 in New York, where he had lived for thirty years,
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