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Visión Amazonía

Colombia's flagship jurisdictional REDD+ mechanism is a government-to-government results-based payment programme run by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development with Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom as funders and Germany's KfW as guarantor.

Colombian Amazon biome, prioritising Caquetá and Guaviare, ColombiaAmazon biomenone (bilateral results-based REDD+ payment mechanism, not a credit registry)
OperatorMinistry of Environment and Sustainable Development (Colombia), guaranteed by KfW, funded by Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom
EcosystemAmazon biome
Standardnone (bilateral results-based REDD+ payment mechanism, not a credit registry)
StatusActive
LocationColombian Amazon biome, prioritising Caquetá and Guaviare, Colombia
Overview

Inside the project

Its own FAQ describes the logic plainly: a system that compensates a country's effort to reduce carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.

Set against a 2000-2012 baseline deforestation rate of 82,863 hectares a year across the 458,961 km2 Colombian Amazon biome, early results (2015-2016) credited the government with preventing roughly 7 million tonnes of CO2 and benefiting some 25,500 Indigenous and 12,200 farming families.

458,961 km2
Colombian Amazon biome covered
125M USD
Pledged over 5 years
7M tCO2
Prevented, 2015-2016
25,500
Indigenous families benefited

Objectives

  • Reduce net deforestation to zero in the Colombian Amazon
  • Deliver results-based payments against a 2000-2012 baseline

Approach

  • A government-to-government results-based REDD+ payment mechanism against a 2000-2012 deforestation baseline.

Sources

Inspect 2 sources
  1. visionamazonia.minambiente.gov.co ↗https://visionamazonia.minambiente.gov.co/en/remi-frequent-questions/
  2. gggi.org ↗https://gggi.org/press-release/amazon-vision-launched-in-colombia/

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