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Cases / Carbon credits · Colombia · 2024

Colombian court finds REDD+ carbon scheme violated indigenous rights

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Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
What the record lacks: 2 none on record · 1 not measured · 1 unclear See the gaps

Colombia's Constitutional Court, in ruling T-248/24, found that a REDD+ carbon scheme violated indigenous rights, Mongabay Latam reported in 2024. The sources reviewed do not name the scheme, the community or the company involved.

What?
Colombia's Constitutional Court found that a REDD+ carbon scheme violated indigenous rights. Mongabay Latam
Where?
Colombia. Mongabay Latam
When?
Ruling T-248/24; reported June to July 2024. Mongabay Latam
Who?
Gained
None on record
Lost
None on record
Harmed
  • Indigenous community (not named in the sources reviewed) — rights found violated by the scheme Mongabay Latam
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
The finding concerned a REDD+ carbon scheme; the scheme's mechanism is not described in the sources reviewed. Mongabay Latam
6 of 6 questions answered from the record

What happened

The record, in order.

Mongabay Latam reported that Colombia's Constitutional Court, in ruling T-248/24, found that a REDD+ carbon scheme violated indigenous rights.

The source is dated June to July 2024.

    In court and with insurers

    Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.

    Lawsuits and rulings

    1. 2024Claimant won
      Ruling T-248/24
      Constitutional Court of Colombia · constitutional · Indigenous community (not named) → Not named in the sources reviewed

      The court found that a REDD+ carbon scheme violated indigenous rights, as reported by Mongabay Latam. Mongabay Latam

    Insurers

    No insurer decision on record.

    What we don't know

    Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.

    Nature

    • Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.

    Record

    • None on record The scheme's name, operator, location and the community involved are not stated in the sources reviewed.
    • None on record Any penalty, compensation or change to the scheme after the ruling is not stated.
    • Unclear Whether the ruling changed the scheme's carbon credits or sales is not known.

    Did the harm stop?

    Not stated in the sources reviewed.

    Who paid?

    Not stated in the sources reviewed.

    Sources

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    Terms used on this page

    Carbon and conservation finance

    Carbon credit
    A certificate representing one tonne of carbon dioxide (or equivalent) that a project says it reduced, avoided or removed. Buyers use credits to balance their own emissions in climate claims.
    REDD+
    Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation. A UN framework under which forest projects earn carbon credits for deforestation they say they prevented, measured against a projected baseline.

    Law and courts

    Constitutional Court
    The highest court for questions of constitutional rights in a country.
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