1. Reducing Deforestation in Amazonia: how transparency builds governance
Gilberto Câmara
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
Brazil

2. Deforestation in Amazonia (big problem)%
20 – 30%
30 – 40%
40 – 50%
50 – 60%
60 – 70%
70 – 80%
80 – 90%
90 – 100%
Amazonia ( km2 = size of Europe)

3. Real-time Deforestation Monitoring
Daily warnings of newly deforested large areas

4. Policing actions: illegal wood seizure
50% of operations in 2% of the area

5. Transparency builds governance!
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia ( )
dropped from 27,000 km2 to 6,200 km2

6. How much it takes to survey Amazonia?
30 Tb of data
lines of code
150 man/years of software dev
200 man/years of interpreters
Cena de maior prioridade utilizou imagens CBRES na s tres principais areas: , Sendo complementada por imagem TM

7. RIO-92 Declaration – principle #10
Environmental issues are best handled with participation of all citizens.
Each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment.

8. RIO + 20: bulding on principles from RIO-92
We need a new convention on the public availability of environmental information