Can Brazil save the Amazon this time?

Scientists fear the Amazon may be approaching a tipping point that would have global consequences. But Brazil was once hugely successful at tackling deforestation there. Can the country do it again?

Credits:
Reporter: Beatrice Christofaro
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer, Joanna Gottschalk

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#AmazonRainforest #Brazil #Deforestation #Lula #Bolsonaro

Read more:
Princeton University study on reducing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: https://successfulsocieties.princeton...
A Pathway to Zero Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon:
https://ipam.org.br/wp-content/upload...
On the drivers of deforestation by Hannah Ritchie:
https://ourworldindata.org/what-are-d...
Guardian piece on the deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Igarapé Institute strategy:
https://igarape.org.br/wp-content/upl...

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:02 What’s at stake?
2:25 How it all began
3:45 The turning point
6:21 Deforestation rises again
7:59 The Amazon’s comeback?
9:55 Conclusion