Global Leaders in Conservation Economics and Finance, Conservation Strategy Fund and Conservation Finance Alliance join forces to implement innovative financial solutions and empower conservation leaders in their efforts to address today’s climate and biodiversity crises. This unique partnership will deliver impactful conservation finance solutions that realign incentives to serve both people and nature.

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. 

This August and September, Conservation Strategy Fund brought 43 participants together for the 25th iteration of our world-renowned Economics and Finance for Environmental Leadership Course. This course is designed for professionals at the forefront of global sustainability issues, to train them on key economic and financial mechanisms they can use in their work building sustainable conservation strategies.

 

 

  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.

Bolivia ha experimentado un desafío angustiante en los últimos años: los incendios forestales. Estos eventos devastadores no solo dejan cicatrices en el paisaje, sino también en la vida de las personas y en la rica biodiversidad del país. En este análisis, exploraremos a fondo el impacto de los incendios en Bolivia a nivel nacional. Destacaremos las diversas facetas de este problema, que incluye la pérdida de bosques y biodiversidad, las consecuencias ambientales y económicas.

Many people think logging is a major cause of tropical deforestation, but in this blog post we show that expanding forestry concessions may actually be the best way of protecting the forest in Bolivia. In 2016, about 5.6 million hectares of Bolivian forest were being used for timber production through long-term forestry concessions (see Map 1). The forestry concessions were located mainly in areas with Amazon rainforest (63%) and Chiquitano dry forest (31%). Map 1: Forestry concessions in Bolivia, 2016 (5.6 million hectares)

Mucha gente piensa que la tala de árboles es una de las principales causas de deforestación. En este blog mostraremos que, en realidad, expandir las concesiones forestales puede ser la mejor manera de proteger los bosques en Bolivia. En 2016, alrededor de 5,6 millones de hectáreas de bosque en Bolivia estaban siendo utilizadas para la producción de madera a partir de concesiones forestales de largo plazo (ver Mapa 1). Las concesiones forestales estaban localizadas principalmente en el Bosque Amazónico (63%) y Bosque Seco Chiquitano (31%).