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The World’s First “Nature Superpower”s | Ilona Szabó de Carvalho | TED

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11 months ago

September 22, 2025

Over the last 40 years, Brazil has lost an area larger than California to deforestation — and 90 percent of the clear-cutting has been illegal, all part of a multi-billion-dollar global environmental crime economy. Civic entrepreneur Ilona Szabó de Carvalho sees this crisis as an opportunity. Revealing how Brazil is pioneering an economic model actually profiting from protecting nature, she shares the ambitious restoration goals and innovations in forest mapping that are turning the country into a “nature superpower.” Get a glimpse of what an economy rooted in regeneration, not extraction, could look like. (Recorded at TED Countdown Summit 2025 on June 16, 2025)

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@LinhToMinhnh

September 22, 2025 at 11:02 am

Thank you so much for your creative ideas. It’s always interesting to see what you will surprise in the next video.🍀🤹🪞🪟

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@HoaTranTuTu-h1y

September 22, 2025 at 11:02 am

Your style is just mesmerizing! It’s not just a video, but a real work of art. Thank you so much for the inspiration!🍀🧿🌸

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@AnhTongDucuc

September 22, 2025 at 11:08 am

Your videos are a daily reminder to focus on gratitude and appreciation for the little things 🐶🐾

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@NganTaThuyuy

September 22, 2025 at 11:14 am

If our dates were this much fun, we’d laugh ourselves to tears every day💕

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@RoelCandaele

September 22, 2025 at 11:18 am

😘💓🫶🌍🌎🌏🥰

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@Unrulypath-p9f

September 22, 2025 at 11:45 am

So inspiring and informative 👏🙌💯

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@GrandSekiza

September 22, 2025 at 11:55 am

The idea that everything has to be done in the sense of profitability is whats wrong with human society today and why we have such an issue with protecting the earth in the first place.

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- @nocivolive
  
  September 23, 2025 at 8:14 am
  
  Not everything needs to be profitable but if you can make it, you will incentive more people to build companies, research, maintain it, work to more efficient without having to waste tax payer money.
  
  For example, if making food wasn’t profitable millions of people in cities or without skills to get their own food would starve.
  
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@forsure_56

September 22, 2025 at 12:01 pm

Ted talk is my first favorite channel 🎉

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@S0me0ne_S0meWhere_SaysHi

September 22, 2025 at 12:42 pm

Not everything in life should be about me, me, me! Biodiversity MUST NOT become a commodity!

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@timonsmeets387

September 22, 2025 at 1:06 pm

Lots of buzzwords 0 substance

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- @nocivolive
  
  September 23, 2025 at 8:15 am
  
  99% of Ted Talks are like these. People do it just to showcase themselves. Sucks.
  
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@grudxz

September 22, 2025 at 1:54 pm

: With much more sustainable cities we will be able to recover many degraded habitats in the interior of countries, not destroying biomes to protect borders would also help a lot…

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@saranbhatia8809

September 23, 2025 at 12:03 am

Great meaningful talk! Thanks for this!;!🌿

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@guppygrease9767

September 23, 2025 at 1:24 pm

So on we go, Natural Order bring us to now! Greed root of problem inside traders corporate welfare paper tiger fat cat snake oil charlatan insurance zombies finite speculated value only rich aloud to have. Was contempt going to be problematic?

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@urbanstrencan

September 24, 2025 at 3:35 pm

Great talk, and interesting idea 🤟⚡

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@AhmadSyauqicityofmalang

September 24, 2025 at 6:58 pm

How do we know the nature standard for benchmark any nature changing?

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