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September 5, 2025
Noncompliance, Division, and Disappointment: The Footprint of Carbon Markets in the Colombian Amazon (Spanish)
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The Carbon Gap in South America
Who wins, who loses, and what it takes for climate solutions to deliver
An English summary of this report is below. A Spanish summary of the original report, a Climate Tracker podcast episode, follows.
In the Colombian Amazon, 22 Indigenous communities decided to join a carbon credit project in the hopes of protecting the forest and alleviating the communities' most basic needs.
However, the project never fulfilled its objectives, not even the most basic one, which was to curb deforestation. Today, the forest remains at risk from new threats, and the communities are increasingly divided.
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Incumplimiento, división y decepción: la huella de los mercados de carbono en la Amazonía colombiana
En la Amazonía colombiana, 22 comunidades indígenas decidieron vincularse a un proyecto de créditos de carbono con la esperanza de proteger la selva y aliviar sus necesidades más básicas. El proyecto nunca cumplió con sus objetivos, ni siquiera con el más básico, que era frenar la deforestacion. Hoy la selva sigue en riesgo frente a nuevas amenazas y las comunidades cada vez más divididas.
