In May 2024, Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) Brazil participated in the 3rd Assembly of Rede Xingu+, a gathering focused on discussions and decisions related to the preservation of protected areas and the challenges faced by indigenous and riverside communities in the region. The event brought together over 400 participants, including indigenous leaders, partner institutions, and local community representatives.

 

  Também fruto de parceria entre CSF e IPAM, a Oficina de Priorização dos Critérios Socioambientais na Microrregião de Chapadinha, leste do Maranhão, foi oferecida a agricultores da região. 

A publicação Resources Policy, número 88, publicou o artigo ‘Valoração econômica dos impactos da mineração de ouro artesanal de pequena escala: Uma estrutura para aplicação de transferência de valor.

PlanaFlor is a national plan for sustainable development that promotes environmental, economic, and social assets to pursue the effective implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code, Law no. 12.651/12, which provides protection for the native vegetation.  

Conservation Strategy Fund’s Smart Infrastructure Series communicates our expertise in sustainable infrastructure development around the world. In this series, our team of expert economists share their advice on balancing development with the conservation of healthy ecosystems for short and long-term social, economic, and environmental well-being.  Brazil to Rebuild a Highway Through the Amazon, but At What Cost? 

Around 17 percent of the Amazon Rainforest has been destroyed in the last 50 years due to deforestation, jeopardizing important global ecosystem services and threatening indigenous treaties and claims to land.

In collaboration with the Federal Public Prosecutors’ Office of Brazil (MPF), CSF designed a Mining Impacts Calculator to estimate the socio-environmental costs of illegal gold mining in Brazil. With this tool, the MPF can now easily and efficiently calculate the estimated costs of illegal gold-mining activities and enforce stricter financial penalties for lawbreakers across Brazil.

O Brasil é um dos maiores consumidores de agrotóxicos do mundo. De acordo com dados fornecidos pelo Instituto Brasileiro do Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis (IBAMA), o consumo de agrotóxicos no Brasil está aumentando rapidamente com cerca de 162.000 toneladas de agrotóxicos utilizados em 2000, em comparação com as cerca de 549.000 toneladas utilizadas em 2018.