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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September 22, 2025 at 11:08 am
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September 22, 2025 at 11:14 am
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September 22, 2025 at 11:45 am
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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.
@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.
@forsure_56
September 22, 2025 at 12:01 pm
Ted talk is my first favorite channel 🎉
@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!
@timonsmeets387
September 22, 2025 at 1:06 pm
Lots of buzzwords 0 substance
@nocivolive
September 23, 2025 at 8:15 am
99% of Ted Talks are like these. People do it just to showcase themselves. Sucks.
@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…
@saranbhatia8809
September 23, 2025 at 12:03 am
Great meaningful talk! Thanks for this!;!🌿
@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?
@urbanstrencan
September 24, 2025 at 3:35 pm
Great talk, and interesting idea 🤟⚡
@AhmadSyauqicityofmalang
September 24, 2025 at 6:58 pm
How do we know the nature standard for benchmark any nature changing?