Introduction
"Climate change is certainly one of the biggest challenges humanity has ever faced. We’re going to need everyone working worldwide to fix it. There are things every one of us can do in our own personal lives to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that we cause. But we also need a level of international collaboration that has been rare… It’s clear now that in order to avoid really dangerous climate change, we’re going to have to keep the forests of the world standing. And most of the forests are falling today in the tropics. That’s where international collaboration is particularly important… We invite you to take this course and learn more about one of the most exciting environmental policy opportunities that we've seen in a few decades."
Dr. Daniel Nepstad - Amazon Forest Ecologist Woods Hole Research Center
and Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM)