Block A · Struggle 1 · Prior consent · carbon

Our forests are not sold without our consent

A thirty-year carbon credit project signed without our free, prior and informed consent.

What we defend

The Mandate of the Elders prohibits green economies in the Ancestral Territory. Even so, in 2021 a mandate contract was signed for a carbon credit project over our forests, planned from 2020 to 2050, which declares 210.616 tonnes of carbon reduced in its first two years.

The Inga People are not asking for a new consultation: they ask that their autonomous decision to suspend all relations with the project's companies be respected, as ratified at the Territorial Thought Minga of 25 October 2025.

How it has unfolded

2021A mandate contract is signed that the Inga People do not recognise as valid consent.
13 Feb. 2025The authorities suspend in writing all relations with the project's companies.
25 Oct. 2025The Minga ratifies the suspension of relations with the companies and decides to go to the courts.
4 Sep. 2026Own report on the carbon certificate boom.
8 Sep. 2026The tutela (constitutional action) is filed.
17 Sep. 2026The first instance rejects it as inadmissible.
18 Sep. 2026Challenged: it is now at second instance.

Who stands with us

CEALDESCENSAT Agua Viva

Documents

ACIMVIP report (public version in preparation) · Special: oil and carbon credits

If you are an ally

We have already filed the challenge to the ruling that declared the tutela inadmissible. We invite allied organisations to submit an amicus curiae before the 33rd Civil Circuit Court of Bogotá, Judge Alfredo Martínez de la Hoz, which is hearing the second instance, so that the ruling is overturned and the free, prior and informed consent of the Inga People is examined on the merits.

Case number: 11001418904720260167601 · filed on 29 September 2026.

How to submit it: write to us at coordinacionddhhacimvip@gmail.com (ACIMVIP Human Rights Coordination) to receive the public case file, and cite the case number of the proceeding in your submission.

Those who stand with us and those we hold to account

Struggle	Stand with us	We hold to account / in relation to
A1Consent and carbon	CEALDESCENSAT Agua Viva	Yauto Yauto What we demand That the suspension of all relations decided by our authorities be recognised, that the project's actions over the territory cease, and that full information be handed over: sales, prices, buyers, revenues and their distribution. Since Sep. 2026 Public evidence Tutela (8 Sep. 2026) and brief specifying the claims (17 Sep. 2026), at second instance; ACIMVIP report (public version in preparation) Jayma Holdings Jayma Holdings What we demand That the suspension of all relations decided by our authorities be recognised, that the project's actions over the territory cease, and that full information be handed over: sales, prices, buyers, revenues and their distribution. Since Sep. 2026 Public evidence Tutela (8 Sep. 2026) and brief specifying the claims (17 Sep. 2026), at second instance; ACIMVIP report (public version in preparation) Carbo Sostenible Carbo Sostenible What we demand That the suspension of all relations decided by our authorities be recognised, that the project's actions over the territory cease, and that full information be handed over: sales, prices, buyers, revenues and their distribution. Since Sep. 2026 Public evidence Tutela (8 Sep. 2026) and brief specifying the claims (17 Sep. 2026), at second instance; ACIMVIP report (public version in preparation) Aracea Aracea What we demand That the suspension of all relations decided by our authorities be recognised, that the project's actions over the territory cease, and that full information be handed over: sales, prices, buyers, revenues and their distribution. Since Sep. 2026 Public evidence Tutela (8 Sep. 2026) and brief specifying the claims (17 Sep. 2026), at second instance; ACIMVIP report (public version in preparation) Visso Consultores Visso Consultores What we demand That the suspension of all relations decided by our authorities be recognised, that the project's actions over the territory cease, and that full information be handed over: sales, prices, buyers, revenues and their distribution. Since Sep. 2026 Public evidence Tutela (8 Sep. 2026) and brief specifying the claims (17 Sep. 2026), at second instance; ACIMVIP report (public version in preparation) Concepto Carbono Concepto Carbono What we demand That the suspension of all relations decided by our authorities be recognised, that the project's actions over the territory cease, and that full information be handed over: sales, prices, buyers, revenues and their distribution. Since Sep. 2026 Public evidence Tutela (8 Sep. 2026) and brief specifying the claims (17 Sep. 2026), at second instance; ACIMVIP report (public version in preparation) Terra Commodities Terra Commodities What we demand That the suspension of all relations decided by our authorities be recognised, that the project's actions over the territory cease, and that full information be handed over: sales, prices, buyers, revenues and their distribution. Since Sep. 2026 Public evidence Tutela (8 Sep. 2026) and brief specifying the claims (17 Sep. 2026), at second instance; ACIMVIP report (public version in preparation) BioCarbon Cert BioCarbon Cert What we demand That it remove from the registry the references to the Inga People and the unretired certificates from the area of the Reserve. Since Sep. 2026 Public evidence Tutela (8 Sep. 2026) and brief specifying the claims (17 Sep. 2026), at second instance; ACIMVIP report (public version in preparation) AENOR AENOR What we demand That it withdraw its validation and verification opinions on the project. Since Sep. 2026 Public evidence Tutela (8 Sep. 2026) and brief specifying the claims (17 Sep. 2026), at second instance; ACIMVIP report (public version in preparation) AENOR Confía AENOR Confía What we demand That it withdraw its validation and verification opinions on the project. Since Sep. 2026 Public evidence Tutela (8 Sep. 2026) and brief specifying the claims (17 Sep. 2026), at second instance; ACIMVIP report (public version in preparation)

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