El 24 de enero iniciamos la primera versión, 100% en línea y en español, de nuestro reconocido curso Economía y Finanzas para el Liderazgo Ambiental.

I recently returned from my first Conference of the Parties (COP) from the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that took place in Montreal, Canada. I was inspired by the events I attended, the positivity and hope surrounding our meetings and objectives, and by the final agreement on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). I can only imagine what it must have taken to get 190+ countries to agree on the 23 targets in those final few hours of the conference.

On December 8, 2022, our Sintang Groundwork Analysis consortium gathered to share their findings from their work on green budget tagging, a practice of identifying elements within the regency’s budget that are beneficial to the advancement of sustainable or “green” efforts, supporting the vision of the Green Sintang Initiatives.

  About the Groundwork Analysis (GWA) Program:

Following the selection of the Illegal Gold Mining Impacts Calculator as a finalist for "The Grand Challenge of Artisanal Mining: The Amazon" last July, the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) participated in the "Innovation Xchange". This space brought together key actors from the public and private sectors, civil society, members of indigenous communities and academia. Photo: Conservation X Labs.

The Mining Impacts Calculator is being adapted to the realities of the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon.

With a final Zoom session on Tuesday, September 13, CSF’s Numbers for Nature Training Institute completed its 2022 online International Economics and Finance for Environmental Leadership course.

El pasado 25 de agosto finalizamos, con éxito, el curso virtual Análisis Costo – Beneficio para la integración del análisis económico en los procesos de decisión del sector pesquero. Nuestro primer curso virtual para pescadores y pescadoras de México, fue llevado a cabo con el apoyo de Comunidad y Biodiversidad – COBI.

The Landscape Modeling Training participants. Photo by Hasan Adha Fauzi  

CSF’s Mining Impact Calculator has been selected as one of 13 finalists for the Conservation X Labs’ Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge: The Amazon With funding support from Microsoft, USAID, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Esri, this Challenge aims to support  innovators to develop and implement solutions that