Clear and concrete actions for everybody
We unify a vision amongst members regarding the market and its impact on the sustainable development of Colombia. We do this so we can have a solid and strong carbon market.
Our legacy
Carbon markets
We focus on promoting, strengthen and consolidate Colombia’s carbon market through climatic change’s public politics, always in a constructive way under the following principles:
- Transparency for all the market members.
- Efficiency in all the actions and achievements.
- Continous management regarding carbon factors.
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Board of directors
Our members
The board of directors is made of 7 stages, main and alternate, chosen by the General Assembly of Associates for a period of two (2) years.
Juan David Duran
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Ecoregistry
juan@ecoregistry.io
Paulo Hernández
Asocarbon Board of Directors
Forestry Consulting Group
paulo.hernandez@fcgsas.com
Carlos Trujillo
Asocarbon Board of Directors
Cercarbono
ctrujillo@cercarbono.com
Santiago Martínez
Asocarbon Board of Directors
Ecopetrol
santiago.martinez@ecopetrol.com.co
Camilo Sánchez
Asocarbon Board of Directors
Cemex
camiloalejandro.sanchez@cemex.com
Carlos Puerta
Asocarbon Board of Directors
South Pole
c.puerta@southpole.com
Natalia Quevedo
Alternate
Inverbosques
natalia.quevedo@inverbosques.com
Katherine Rodríguez
Alternate
Biofix
comunicaciones@biofix.com.co
Mauricio Rodríguez
Alternate
CO2Cero
mauricio@co2cero.co
Mariana Sarmiento
Alternate
Terrasos
mariana.sarmiento@terrasos.co
Julio Andrés Rozo
Alternate
Amazonía Emprende
julioandres@amazoniaemprende.com
Organization chart
Organizational structure
Operative team
Our team
Our operational team is made up of 3 positions: Executive Management, Technical Coordination and communications consulting.
Francisco Ocampo Trujillo
Asocarbon Executive Director
direccion@asocarbono.org
Carolina Grillo González
Asocarbon Technical Coordinator
comercial@asocarbono.org
Ana María Rocha Pacheco
Asocarbon Communications Advisor
comunicaciones@asocarbono.org
Nury Cuevas
Financial and Accounting Advisor
contabilidad@asocarbono.org
Legal Adviser
Asesor Jurídico
Marcela Castro
Advisor to the Occupational Health and Safety Management System
Documents of interest
For a sustainable and solid market
We work in order to make the Colombian market stronger through strategic actions that allow interactions amongst comercial contacts, experiences and knowledge management.
Our statues
We are a nonprofit trade association, of private law, formed to benefit its affiliates, the ambient sector and sustainable development. Our statues generate the main path of our organizational structure.
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Good Practices Manual
Defines the principles and criteria of ethic behavior within The Association with relation to the market members and third parties that interact through market activities and its operation as guild entity.
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Climate Change Public Politics
The following documents are a technical and management guide of Colombia’s climate change:
- National Adaptation Plan to Climate Change.
- Colombian strategy for low carbon develpment.
- Paris Agreement United Nations.
- Third Bienal report of Climate change actualization in Colombia.
- Comprehensive Strategy to Control Deforestation and Forest Management.
- Comprehensive Strategy for Control of Deforestation and Forest Management Brochure.
- Expected and Determined Contribution at the National Level INDC.
- Second Bienal report of Colombia’s actualization for the CMNUCC.
- Deforestation Monitoring Results 2019 IDEAM.
- Salvaguardas REDD+ information in Colombia.
- Second Bienal report of Colombia’s actualization for the CMNUCC.
Regulations on carbon markets
Laws, decrees and resolutions:
- Law 164 of 1994 Approves United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- Law 629 of 2000 Approves Kyoto Protocol.
- Conpes 3242 of 2003 Sale of environmental services to mitigate climate change.
- Resolution 2733 of 2010 Approval of programs under the Clean Development Mechanism.
- Resolution 2734 of 2010 GHG reduction projects and Clean Development Mechanism.
- Conpes 3700 of 2011 Articulation of climate change policies and actions.
- Decree 298 of 2016 National Climate Change System.
- Law 1819 of 2016 Carbon tax.
- Law 1844 of 2017 Approves the Paris Agreement.
- Decree 926 of 2017 National carbon tax.
- Law 1931 of 2018 Guidelines for climate change management.
- Resolution 1447 of 2018 RENARE.
- Decree 446 of 2020 Accreditation of Verification and Validation Bodies.
- Resolution 831 of 2020 Monitoring, Reporting and Verification System for mitigation actions.
- Law 2169 of 2021 Climate Action Law.
Technical documents
In this section you will be able to consult the necessary concepts to learn more about the Colombian carbon market.
- Chapter 1: Climate change.
- Chapter 2: The Paris agreement, the NDC and Colombia’s commitments.
- Chapter 3: The carbon market in Colombia.
- Chapter 4: Current status of the Colombian carbon market.
- Chapter 5: GHG mitigation initiatives and carbon certificates.
- Chapter 6: Project cycle.
- Chapter 7: Types of mitigation initiatives.
Participation Instances
Thematic committees
They are advisory bodies of the Board of Directors and the executive director, as well as instances of participation of the members in the activities of the association, which serve to escalate proposals on institutional policy.
The Association’s trade union positions are built from the thematic committees.
Formation
- Programs and curses design.
- Content elaboration.
- Events realization.
Institutional relationships
- With SISCLIMA.
- With other guilds.
- With international organizations.
Regulatory proposals
- On public policy and regulatory framework.
- Construction of union positions.
Comunications
- Implementation of the communication strategy and crisis management.
- Content on the market’s diffusion.
