Mountain and forest at Amboro park in Bolivia.

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.  Background

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.

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.

  About the Groundwork Analysis (GWA) Program:

Following the selection of the Illegal Gold Mining Impacts Calculator as a finalist for "The Grand Challenge of Artisanal Mining: The Amazon" last July, the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) participated in the "Innovation Xchange". This space brought together key actors from the public and private sectors, civil society, members of indigenous communities and academia. Photo: Conservation X Labs.