GEOSS: the view from the South Gilberto Câmara Director, National Institute for Space Research Brazil

How can data democracy reach the masses? photo: Yan Aarhus Bertrand

23rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 December Training courses are needed! source: gapminder.org

23rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 December Are training courses still needed? source: gapminder.org

World Science (1998) source: OECD

World science (2008) source: OECD

An important contribution from GEOSS

Updated from Le Quéré et al. 2009, Nature Geoscience LUC emissions now ~10% of total CO 2 emissions CO 2 emissions (PgC y -1 ) Fossil fuel Land use change Time (y) CO 2 Emissions: fossil fuels and land use

Governance + markets + technology >> REDD+ Reducing deforestation in Amazonia

“By 2020, Brazil will reduce deforestation by 80% relative to 2005.” (pres. Lula in Copenhagen COP-15)

TerraAmazon – open source software for large-scale land change monitoring Spatial database (PostgreSQL with vectors and images) data: 5 million polygons, 500 GB images

Transparency builds governance registrations 46 million protests

What could be the size of REDD? 10% REDD Reduction of developed countries 46,2 Gt CO2eq REDD 4,62 Gt CO2eq To maintain environmental integrity, REDD should be at most 10% of the commitments of developed countries, if they agree to reduce their emissions by 50% between 2010 and 2020

What could be the size of REDD in Brazil? REDD 4,62 Gt CO2eq Proposed reduction 4,9 Gt CO2eq From 2010 to 2020, the emissions cuts proposed by Brazil would be larger than the entire worldwide market for REDD

The food challenge

Nature, 29 July 2010

Productivity and prices: the challenge

The impact of technology Tonelada de soja 1992 – US$ – US$ 484 fonte: Index Mundi Soja: 600 kg/ha em kg/ha em 2008

The food challenge: technology gaps

Forests and food production: potential conflicts

Nature, 29 July 2010

Brazil: a natural knowledge economy? Brazil´s innovation system is in large part built upon its natural and environmental resources, endowments and assets.

Deforestation cut by 300% ( ) 46% of energy is renewable Brazil: a natural knowledge economy Best technology in biofuels World leader in tropical agriculture

Agriculture Energy Ecosystems Climate change Weather and natural disasters Space technology adds value to Brazil´s natural knowledge economy Megacities

29 Mudança de Uso da Terra pela Expansão da Cana

Sugarcane expansion

Data is coming... are we ready? Sentinel-2A 2011 Amazônia Landsat-8 CBERS-3 CBERS-4 ResourceSat-2 AWIFSSat ResourceSat-3 Sentinel-2B