Lima, 29 de mayo de 2025 – En el marco del Peru Carbon Forum 2025, Augusto Mulanovich, Director de Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) en Perú, participó como ponente en la mesa titulada “Proyectos de Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza (SbN) para Perú: Conservación de ecosistemas y mercado de carbono”. El evento reunió a actores del sector público, empresas, ONGs y sociedad civil para debatir sobre el futuro del mercado de carbono en la región.

LIMA, May 29, 2025 — At the Peru Carbon Forum 2025, Augusto Mulanovich, Director of Conservation Strategy Fund Peru, presented a comprehensive analysis on the financial and economic foundations necessary for scaling Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) in Peru. Speaking on the panel “Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) Projects for Peru: Ecosystem Conservation and the Carbon Market,” Mulanovich joined experts from government, business, civil society, and environmental organizations to explore the future of carbon markets in the region.

A recent study from Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) demonstrates the positive impact of NPAs on the Peruvian economy, and highlights how an investment in these services could mean a return of nearly 900% in economic value to Peru. This economic analysis indicates that strategic investments in these spaces will conserve natural heritage, and also generate employment and economic growth.

The natural protected areas (NPAs) are home to much of Peru's megadiversity. Ensuring their sustainability and efficient management is not only essential for the conservation of the country's flora and fauna but also represents a key opportunity for economic development and the well-being of local communities. The Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) study reinforces this idea, highlighting the potential positive impact of NPAs on the Peruvian economy. Its findings indicate that investment in these strategic spaces, in addition to conserving natural heritage, also generates employment and economic growth.

CSF Peru visited the facilities of the National Forest and Wildlife Service (SERFOR) to discuss the potential of building a common agenda where CSF's experience contributes with information that values ​​the forest and wildlife heritage, estimates the cost of the loss of ecosystem services and its socio-environmental impact on the country. The meeting was attended by the Executive Director of SERFOR, Erasmo Otárola, officials of the entity and Augusto Mulanovich Diez-Canseco, director of CSF Peru.

This report shows the results of the application of the CFS's Mining Impacts Calculator in recent (2022 and 2023) illegal mining areas within 3 native communities, all located in the buffer zone of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve in southern Peru. This is an effort to show from a comprehensive perspective (economic and environmental) the implications of deforestation due to illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon.

Análisis estimó el impacto económico de la minería ilegal de oro en áreas  fronterizas entre Brasil y Colombia. Según estudio, se estima que entre 2020 y  2022, el impacto económico de la presencia de la minería ilegal en áreas de triple frontera de Perú, Colombia y Brasil sería entre 20 a 62 millones de USD.

Between January and May 2023, the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) -in consortium with Kara Solar and the Binational Development Plan of the Peru-Ecuador border region- participated in the second phase of the Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) to promote the fluvial transport powered by solar energy in the Peruvian Amazon. Seeking to replicate in the country the initiative developed by Kara Solar in Ecuador for solar boats, our project was one of the eight projects selected to receive advice and financial tools to strengthen this low-carbon innovation and attract financing.

El pasado 28 de marzo de 2023 se realizó la "Reunión Regional de Intercambio: Calculadora de Impactos de la Minería Ilegal de Oro en Brasil, Perú y Colombia”, un espacio para compartir las lecciones aprendidas en el uso y adaptación de la herramienta web que genera en tiempo real la estimación del impacto en términos económicos que causa la minería ilegal en los bosques, ríos y en la salud de las personas. El evento congregó a funcionarios públicos de Perú, Colombia y Brasil interesados en identificar sinergias para hacer frente a esta problemática.

[Spanish & English] Our partner, the Group for Development Analysis (GRADE) recently presented on a joint publication entitled "Connectivity in the Peruvian Amazon: Analysis of a Road Portfolio and Case Study Boca Manu - Boca Colorado'' during the Foro Internacional Interconectando Bienestar en la Amazonía. This international forum for the well-being of the amazon was organized by the Observatory for Sustainable Road Infrastructure in the Amazonian Andes, of which Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF), GRADE, and the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS Peru).