Climate Change and Brazil’s Conservation Frontiers

A Brazil LAB event with Tasso Azevedo (MapBiomas). Discussant: Marina Hirota (Federal University of Santa Catarina & GFDL).

Tasso Azevedo is a Brazilian scientist and social entrepreneur working on the field of forests, sustainability and climate change. He coordinates the SEEG Network, a system to estimate greenhouse gas emissions, and MapBiomas, a platform that produces annual land cover and land use country maps through a multi-institutional collaboration. A renowned public intellectual and a Skoll Fellow, Azevedo is a Brazil LAB Affiliated Scholar. He has played a key role in the design and implementation of the National Plan to Combat Deforestation and the Amazon Fund. Azevedo is now leading efforts to expand MapBiomas to South America and tropical rainforest belts in Asia and Africa.

Marina Hirota is Professor of Meteorology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Hirota’s research on Earth System Sciences focuses on processes and interactions of biome shifts within tropical zones of the planet, using dynamical system concepts such as resilience, tipping points and hysteresis. She is a Brazil LAB Affiliate Scholar and is one of the heads of the research project Conservation Frontiers: Engaging Indigenous Ecologies of Knowledges.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Anthropology Department, Program in Latin American Studies