Tasso Azevedo is a social entrepreneur in the field of forests, sustainability and climate change and Technical Coordinator of the Climate Observatory. Tasso is the general coordinator of MapBiomas (land cover and land use change monitoring initiative) and the Brazilian Greenhouse Gas Estimation System (SEEG). Forest engineer graduated from ESALQ/USP, he was founder and general director of the Forest and Agricultural Management and Certification Institute (IMAFLORA), Secretary General of the National Forestry Commission and the first General Director of the Brazilian Forest Service. Tasso was one of the architects of the Amazon Fund and Co-Coordinator of the Plan to Prevent and Combat Deforestation in the Amazon (PPCDAM). He is a research associate at the Brazil Lab at Princeton University, an Ashoka Senior Fellow (2021), a Skoll Award Fellow (2022), a Mulago Foundation Henry Arnhold Fellow (2022) and a member of the board and committees of several organizations such as Imaflora, IEMA,
