Colombia: Solar Farms and Sacred Mountains in Colombia: Indigenous Community and Developer Link Arms to Save ‘Irreplaceable’ Nature Reserve

Apr 14, 2022 | Grant Whittington, Triple Pundit
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A trailblazing environmental project launching in Colombia’s biodiverse Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains promises to pair the construction of solar farms with newly built villages for the Indigenous Arhuaco people. The project, dubbed Terra Initiative, is brought to life through a partnership between Greenwood Energy, a Latin American subsidiary of global conglomerate Libra Group, and the Confederación Indígena Tayrona(CIT), the organization representing the Arhuaco community. Greenwood Energy will sell clean energy generated from its six utility-scale solar farms to Colombia’s National Interconnected System while providing skills training and job opportunities to the Arhuacos.