UNGA Guide 2023The system developed by the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) to monitor deforestation in the Amazon has earned academic prestige and international recognition. INPE helped create a geoprocessing culture in Brazil. In 1987, the field was nonexistent. Today, the industry is worth R$ 15 billion per year in Brazil. This panel will discuss...
This panel will discuss the relationship between deforestation and forest degradation and loss of biodiversity in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the Amazon, along with broader climate change impacts. The most recent evidence and scenarios on this topic will be presented, and pathways to protect socio-biodiversity as a mechanism to mitigate the climate emergency will...
This panel will debate strategies for promoting the densification and improvement of value chains related to products and services of the bioeconomy in the Amazon. This panel highlights the paradox between the Amazon’s extraordinary biodiversity and its distance from the scientific, technological, and market frontier of the contemporary bioeconomy. It discusses the current socioeconomic structures...
This panel will discuss the potential to apply a Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy (MOIP) framework to contribute to the agenda of promoting sustainable development of the Amazon region while curbing deforestation from a perspective of funding R&D. Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy has been adopted, at different levels of government, as a valuable tool to direct STI Policies...
This panel will discuss the potential to apply a Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy (MOIP) framework to contribute to the agenda of promoting sustainable development of the Amazon region while curbing deforestation from a perspective of funding R&D. Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy has been adopted, at different levels of government, as a valuable tool to direct STI Policies...