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Conservationists in the Brazilian Amazon are using a new tool to predict the next sites of deforestation – and it may prove a gamechanger in the war on logging
Princeton researchers will gather with Brazilian scientists, policymakers, environmental leaders, business innovators and social entrepreneurs for the international conference “Amazonian Leapfrogging: Tackling the Climate Crisis and Social Inequality With Nature-Based Solutions” to explore nature-based solutions that foster environmental conservation and socio-economic development of the Brazilian Amazon, without which the chances of reaching the Paris Agreement climate commitments are greatly imperiled. A schedule of public events is below.
Txai Suruí, the young Indigenous leader who represented Brazil’s Amazonian peoples at COP26 in Glasgow, will open the conference by emphasizing the need to listen to the Earth as we try “to open up different paths for global change now.”
Register to attend in person (PUID only) or livestream on the Brazil LAB YouTube channel.
Hosted by the Princeton Brazil LAB and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), the Princ
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Americas Quarterlyâs New Issue Looks at How Development in the Amazon Can Be Sustainableâand Viable
The magazineâs digital issue and related events present new initiatives that can responsibly harness the rainforestâs resources to the benefit of its 35 million inhabitants without resorting to deforestation.
New York, NY, May 12 â âThe idea of sustainable development tends to generate skepticism, and with good reason,â write
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AQ) editors in the magazineâs latest issue, out Wednesday, which spotlights sustainable development in the Amazon. But development, he writes, when done rightâeven in unexpected sectors like miningâcould also hold the key to preserving the rainforest and breaking endemic cycles of poverty and unemployment: âGovernments, companies and civil society should work together to help build a virtuous circle, in which Amazon communities see the value of the fore