The Race to Save the Amazon: Top Brazilian Scientist Says Rainforest Is at "Tipping Point"

As we broadcast from the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, we are joined by one of Brazil's most prominent scientists, Carlos Nobre, who says the Amazon now produces more carbon emissions than it removes from the atmosphere, moving closer to a "tipping point" after which it will be impossible to save the world's largest rainforest. "We need urgently to get to zero deforestation in all Brazilian biomes, especially the Amazon," he argues.

Nobre is a senior researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo and co-chair of the Scientific Panel for the Amazon. He's lead author of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for its reports on global warming.