Yauto SAS & CarbonBox case study: what makes a carbon credit credible, and what to demand before buying.
More and more companies have to account for their carbon footprint, and they turn to offsetting to close the gap they cannot yet reduce. But the credit market is uneven: rigorous projects sit alongside others questioned for not representing real reductions, or for leaving out the communities living in the territory.
We talked with Felipe Díaz Meneses, Territorial Processes Coordinator at Yauto SAS, a developer of REDD+ projects in the Colombian Amazon alongside Indigenous communities in Caquetá, Amazonas and Putumayo. With him we open up the black box of an offset: how a baseline is built, what additionality means in practice, how leakage is avoided, and why community governance is what sustains carbon permanence over time.
Territorial Processes Coordinator, Yauto SAS
Anthropologist from Universidad Externado and MSc candidate in Environmental Management at Universidad de los Andes. Over five years leading REDD+ and biodiversity projects in the Colombian Amazon.
LinkedInCEO and co-founder, CarbonBox
Environmental and Sanitary Engineer, MSc in Climate Change and International Development. 15 years in climate policy and GHG inventories.
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