2022 Week 13 – Jeff Sachs & Emma Torres

• Executive Summary of the 2021 Amazon Assessment Report (48 pages)

Part I: The Amazon as a Regional Entity of the Earth System (95 pages total):

• Chapter 3 in Brief: Biological diversity and ecological networks in the Amazon (11 pages)
• Chapter 5 in Brief: The Physical hydroclimate system of the Amazon (9 pages)
• Cross Chapter 1: The Amazon Carbon Budget (12 pages)
• Chapter 8 in Brief: Peoples of the Amazon before European Colonization (8 pages)
• Chapter 12 in Brief: Languages of the Amazon: Dimensions of diversity (7 pages)

Part II: Social-Ecological Transformations: Changes in the Amazon (72 pages total):

• Chapter 14 in Brief: Amazon in Motion: Changing politics, development strategies, peoples, landscapes, and livelihoods (15 pages)
• Chapter 15 in Brief: Complex, diverse, and changing agribusiness and livelihood systems in the Amazon (8 pages)
• Chapter 16 in Brief: The state of conservation policies, protected areas, and Indigenous territories, from the past to the present (9 pages)
• Chapter 19 in Brief: Drivers and ecological impacts of deforestation and forest degradation (10 pages)
• Chapter 20 in Brief: Drivers and impacts of changes in aquatic ecosystems (12 pages)
• Chapter 22 in Brief: Long-term variability, extremes, and changes in temperature and hydro meteorology (10 pages)
• Policy Brief: A call for global action to move the Amazon rainforest system away from tipping points (8 pages)

Part III: The Solution Space: Finding Sustainable Pathways for the Amazon (35 pages):

• Policy Brief: The role of Amazonian Indigenous Peoples in fighting the climate crisis (8 pages)
• Policy Brief: Transforming the Amazon through ‘Arcs of Restoration’ (12 pages)
• Chapter 30 in Brief: Opportunities and challenges for a healthy standing forest and flowing rivers bioeconomy in the Amazon (15 pages)

Additional readings from other important authors on Amazonian issues: