Successful Colombian Rainforest Project Exposes Problems with Carbon Emissions Trading

Apr 6, 2017 | Bart Crezee
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The Chocó-Darién Conservation Corridor, as the community’s REDD+ project is called, is the first REDD+ project to be certified in Colombia. In 2012 it was the first REDD+ project operating on community land in the world.
COCOMASUR, an organization representing 2,600 Afro-Colombians, utilizes a team of forest rangers to monitor the tropical rainforest. Despite their success, now the community is struggling to get compensated due to a carbon trading market that has “bottomed out.”