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Bandung, 5 - 9 August 2024
YAYASAN STRATEGI KONSERVASI INDONESIA / CSF INDONESIA
Conservation Strategy Fund’s global training team launched its first in-person course in the US since 2019 last November 8th & 9th. Over the two-day course, participants explored the root causes of environmental and conservation problems, earning a background in ecological economics to speak the language of finance with decision-makers around the world.
As CSF Indonesia continues its journey as a steadfast partner of the Sintang Government in their quest to achieve the Green Sintang sustainable development vision by 2030, our efforts have garnered recognition from the government and civil society organizations across Indonesia. In July, CSF Indonesia (YSKI), was invited to the General Meeting of Members by the Sustainable District Forum (LTKL) and received three prestigious awards acknowledging our dedication to supporting and facilitating positive changes in Sintang District over the past five years.
Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony with The Halu Oleo University, Kendari.
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.
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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).
The development of the Sustainable Sintang Initiative has reached a new milestone. Throughout 2021 Yayasan Strategi Konservasi Indonesia (YSKI) together with the Sustainable District Association (LTKL), and the Sintang One-Stop Integrated Services and Investment Agency (DPMPTSP) have worked together on the Sintang General Investment Plan through a series of writing workshops and FGDs involving the stakeholders.
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.
