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So the first thing, we set up a system with the national space agency that could actually see where deforestation is happening, almost in real time.

So now in Brazil, we have this system, DETER, where every month, or every two months, we get information on where deforestation is happening so we can actually act when it's happening.

Then we made the connection that areas that have been doing illegal deforestation should not get any kind of credit or finance.

So supermarkets, the slaughterhouses, and so on that buy products from illegal clear-cut areas, they also can be liable for the deforestation.

So in the last 10 years, deforestation came down in Brazil 75 percent.

So if we compare it with the average deforestation that we had in the last decade, we saved 8.7 million hectares, which is the size of Austria.

One may think that when you do these kinds of actions to decrease, to push down deforestation, you will have an economic impact because you will not have economic activity or something like that.

In fact, in the period when we have the deepest decline of deforestation, the economy grew, on average, double from the previous decade, when deforestation was actually going up.

Maybe this is completely disconnected, as we just learned by having deforestation come down.

In fact, if you think about the deforestation in the Amazon in 2013, that was over half a million hectares, which means that every minute, an area the size of two soccer fields is being cut in the Amazon last year, just last year.

If we sum up the deforestation we have in the other biomes in Brazil, we are talking about still the largest deforestation rate in the world.

It's more or less like we are forest heroes, but still deforestation champions.

First, because 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from deforestation, so it's a big part of the problem.

So I was thinking, if I succeed in working with all my colleagues to actually help to stop deforestation, maybe we will lose the battle later on for climate change by floods, heat, fires and so on.

And that's the exactly the same question I got when I was developing a plan to combat deforestation.

Think of this: Deforestation means 60 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil in the last decade.

So if we can tackle directly the energy, the same way we could tackle deforestation, maybe we can have a chance.

That's what we proved when we decreased deforestation and the economy continued to grow.

I think we are doing this with deforestation in Brazil, and I hope we can do it also with climate change in the world.

But in fact, this is the little-known fact that I didn't realize at the time: Deforestation accounts for more greenhouse gas than all of the world's planes, trains, cars, trucks and ships combined.

I know that the scale of antibiotic resistance seems overwhelming, but if you've ever bought a fluorescent lightbulb because you were concerned about climate change, or read the label on a box of crackers because you think about the deforestation from palm oil, you already know what it feels like to take a tiny step to address an overwhelming problem.

Fisheries, aquaculture, deforestation, climate change, food security and so on.

And just to think what amazing things could be done with that money, consider this: in 2009, Norway promised one billion dollars of its reserves to Brazil if they followed through on their goals on deforestation.

That program has since delivered a 70 percent reduction in deforestation in the past decade.

In the '90s, we pioneered payments for ecosystem services, and that helped us reverse deforestation and boosted ecotourism, which today is a key engine of growth.

This overview shows deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia immediately adjacent to untouched tracts of rainforest.

Deforestation in the country has primarily been driven by the expansion of mechanized agriculture and cattle ranching, so as the country tries to meet the demand of its growing population and feed them, the sacrificial destruction of its rainforest has taken place to do so.

And most of this growth is going to come at the huge cost of deforestation.

Unfortunately, forests are often cleared to supply it, and that causes emissions from deforestation.

Support women smallholders, realize higher yields, avoid deforestation and sustain the life-giving power of forests.

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