Since 2009, Agua Somos has pooled Bogotá's water utility, The Nature Conservancy, Fundación Bavaria and public/multilateral funders into a COP $4.6 billion …
Bogotá, Colombia
Good practice★ 53
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Colombia's first Habitat Bank to issue tradeable Voluntary Biodiversity Credits protects 340 ha of Andean cloud forest in Támesis, Antioquia; each credit …
Támesis, Colombia
Good practice★ 53
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Multi-stakeholder water fund linking EPM, Coca-Cola, Postobon, IDB and TNC to pay upstream farmers for watershed conservation across 23,000 priority hectares, securing …
Medellín, Colombia
Good practice★ 53
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Colombia's national voluntary PES marketplace: private companies and public entities compensate their ecological footprint by paying >13,000 rural and indigenous families to …
Medellin, Colombia
Good practice★ 47
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Colombia's Decreto-Ley 870/2017 created a national legal framework paying landowners to conserve páramos, forests and wetlands; by 2024 government figures reported ~743,000 …
Bogotá, Colombia
Good practice★ 40
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Solidaridad / Rabobank Acorn ex-post carbon-payment programme for ~1,200 smallholder coffee farmers in Cauca, Colombia; satellite-verified Plan Vivo certificates paid one farmer …
Cali's municipal environment agency DAGMA pays rural landowners to protect the city's water sources: 238 agreements signed by June 2026 covering 2,500+ …
Colombia's Resolution 1517/2012 created a mandatory, ratio-based (up to 9:1) biodiversity offset system for mining and infrastructure licensing. Case studies quantify offset …