TNC and CSF staff gathered in São Paulo for the course. Photo credit: Marion Le Failler

Gabriel Quijandría, Photo Credit: Ministry of the Environment of Peru

Participants and organizers of the RECABAAM modeling workshop.

Foto: Carlos Solís

From April 18th to 20th in Bogotá, Colombia, CSF held a course on "Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and their implementation in protected areas". More than 40 officials from National Natural Parks of Colombia (PNNC), from different regions of Colombia, participated in the course, acquiring the necessary knowledge to enable them to implement PES mechanisms in the country's protected areas.

Legal Reserve area aside wheat planting. Photo credit: Daniel Kieling.

CSF's Fernanda Alvarenga doing a presentation during one of the value chains workshops.

CSF participated in a meeting held on October 27th, 2016, at the Federal District Urban Development Agency (Terracap) in Brasília. The meeting’s goal was to contextualize and carry out the facilitation process and data collection with members of the Aliança Cerrado, to be used to support the design of the new Forest Compensation Law of the Federal District.
This meeting was conducted by Pedro Gasparinetti, CSF consultant, and opened by Raul do Valle, from the Environmental Department of the Federal District (SEMA-DF).

CSF conducted a study on the economic impact that São Luiz do Tapajós could have had on local populations if its construction in the Brazilian Amazon had been approved.

We analyzed the loss of subsistence income and the impact on two ecosystem services: water quality reduction and the increase of CO2 equivalent emissions.

Traditional houses in the Tapajós riverside.

Infrastructure WG’s participants during the meeting held in September 2016 .