Tasso Azevedo

Land reformer

Why you should listen

Tasso Azevedo is redefining sustainable land use, using data, technology and policy to protect forests and empower communities. As Brazil’s first chief forester, he helped cut Amazon deforestation by 80% and designed the $2.5B Amazon Fund. He leads SEEG and MapBiomas, pioneering real-time environmental monitoring to drive conservation and sustainability worldwide.

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5 big ideas from day 3 of TED Countdown Summit 2025

June 18, 2025

Across the final two sessions of TED Countdown Summit 2025, experts, changemakers and dreamers explored actionable solutions to fix today’s problems, alleviate tomorrow’s and build a clean energy future. Here are some highlights from day 3: Africa’s electric vehicle revolution is leapfrogging traditional fossil fuel transit. Electrical engineer Doreen Orishaba explores how electric bus company BasiGo […]

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A map of the future: A recap of session 7 of TEDGlobal 2014

October 9, 2014

The theme of this session is “Blueprints.” And so we hear from speakers who have that all-too-easy-to-overlook first step: a plan. Brazil is named for a tree, says Tasso Azevedo. And thus, it is a good place to be a forester. 12% of the world’s forests are in the country, primarily in the Amazon, which plays a vital role in […]

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