Limiting the high impacts of Amazon forest dieback with no-regrets science and policy action

^aCenter for Meteorological and Climatic Research Applied to Agriculture, University of Campinas, 13083-886 Campinas, SP, Brazil;
^bStockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, 11419 Stockholm, Sweden;
^cCoordination of Environmental Dynamics, National Institute for Amazonia Research, 69080-971 Manaus, AM, Brazil;
^dInternational Institute for Sustainability, 22460-320 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
^eDepartment of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 22451-900 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
^fSchool of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany;
^gDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, 6700AA Wageningen, The Netherlands;
^hDepartment of Geography, Federal University of Acre, 69920-900 Rio Branco, AC, Brazil;
ⁱWoods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02540;
^jCenter for Earth System Science, National Institute for Space Research, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil;
^kGraduate Program in Sociology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 91509-900 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil;
^lResearch and Development Coordination, Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, 12630-000 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil;
^mWorld Resources Institute, Washington, DC 20002;
ⁿNational Institute of Science and Technology for Climate Change, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

Edited by B. L. Turner, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, and approved October 1, 2018 (received for review May 8, 2018)

Footnotes

Author contributions: D.M.L. and P.P. designed research; D.M.L., P.P., C.A.Q., and B.B.N.S. performed research; D.M.L. and B.B.N.S. analyzed data; and D.M.L., P.P., C.A.Q., B.B.N.S., A.R., B.K., F.B., J.P.H.B.O., A.P., J.A.M., W.V., and C.A.N. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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