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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 jueves 27 de abril finalizamos la primera versión, 100% en línea y en español, de nuestro reconocido curso Economía y Finanzas para el Liderazgo Ambiental.
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.
Shutterstock: View on Morning fog over the Death Road in the Yungas of Bolivia
Shutterstock: View on Morning fog over the Death Road in the Yungas of Bolivia
Mountain and forest at Amboro park in Bolivia. Credit: Shutterstock
CSF completed a training to increase capacity for natural capital approaches in Africa at the end of 2022, providing tools and knowledge for development planning professionals to integrate natural capital finance into their work.
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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.
