1. The challenge of global environmental monitoring Gilberto Câmara, Director General National Institute for Space Research (INPE) Brazil China Brasil High Level Dialogue ST, 2011

2. We need cooperation at a global level… By the year 2050... 9 billion people: 6 billion tons of GHG and 60 million tons of urban pollutants. Resource-hungry: We will withdraw 30% of available fresh water. Risky living: 80% urban areas, 25% near earthquake faults, 2% in coast lines less than 1 m above sea level. source: Guy Brasseur

3. The food challenge

4. Changes in dietary patterns: Meat consumption FAOSTAT 2007

5. The food challenge: technology gaps

6. Productivity and prices: the challenge source: The Economist

7. Forests and food production: potential conflicts

8. Best environmental monitoring 46% of energy is renewable Brazil: a natural knowledge economy Best technology in biofuels World leader in tropical agriculture

9. Nature, 29 July 2010

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

11. Monitoring Deforestation in Amazonia CBERS image Science (27 April 2007): “ Brazil´s monitoring system is the envy of the world ”. Deforestation Degradation

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

13. Sugarcane crop mapping Detailed estimates of sugarcane crop areas

14. 14 Are biofuels replacing food production in Brazil? source: INPE

15. Sugarcane expansion

16. Data is coming... are we ready? Sentinel-2A 2012 Amazônia-1 2013 20142015 2011 Landsat-8 CBERS-3 ResourceSat-2 ResourceSat-3 Sentinel-2B CBERS-4

17. CBERS as a global satellite CBERS ground stations will cover most of the Earth’s land mass between 30 0 N and 30 0 S Cuiabá Boa Vista Chetumal Maspalomas Aswa n Jo´burg Malindi Gabon Urumchi Miyun Ghuangzhou Darwin Alice Springs Bangcoc

18. The future of CBERS CBERS satellites will provide information about global land change on the tropics