Fixing the Amazon Forest Market Failure | Daniel Nepstad | TEDxAmazonInvestorCoalition

Can we conserve the Amazon by working with deforesters, instead of against them? Can we change economic incentives? As a critical climate mitigation asset near a tipping point, a given hectare of Amazon farm land can be worth $400 forested or $1400 cleared. How can we come up with the difference? Founder of the Earth Innovation Institute, Daniel Nepstad shares five strategies, including: 1) Technology: Help governments make "Forest Code" legal compliance feasible and rewarding, 2) Offset payments: Pay farmers and communities to protect their forests with money from state-wide carbon credit programs, to be accredited under the California Tropical Forest Standard, 3) Fire prevention: Support voluntary fire brigades and transition to tree-based production, 4) Bioeconomy: Increase sustainable production, especially fish farming, 5) Communication and Dialogue: Depolarize debate on the Amazon.

For more visit: Earth Innovation Institute - http://www.earthinnovation.org
California Tropical Forest Standard - https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/california-tropical-forest-standard
Amazon Investor Coalition - http://www.amazoninvestor.org
Dr. Daniel Nepstad, Earth Innovation Institute, worked in the Brazilian Amazon for more than 30 years, publishing 160+ papers and books on the ecological processes, frontier dynamics and public policies that are shaping the region. In 2010, he extended his work to Peru, Colombia and Indonesia. An authority on REDD and low-emission rural development (LED-R), he was previously a Scientist at Woods Hole Research Center, Environmental Conservation lead at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Lecturer at Yale University. Dan co-founded the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) in 1995, Aliança da Terra in 2004, and was a founding board member of the Round Table for Responsible Soy (RTRS) in 2005 and INOBU (Indonesia) in 2015. He served on the REDD Offsets Working Group of California and the Science Committee of Acre State’s SISA program. He was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fifth Assessment. Dan holds a PhD in Forest Ecology from Yale. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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