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Terrasos

58Mixed / Improving· Provisional
0 followersNature-based solutions·Bogotá, Colombia·Founded 2013
www.terrasos.co/en/

Colombian pioneer in biodiversity credits and habitat banking, operating Latin America's first certified habitat bank and issuing voluntary biodiversity credits tied to 10 m² of forest preserved or restored for 30 years.

58/100
Mixed / Improving· Provisional

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Greenwashing risk: mediumData confidence: medium

Why it's on ClimateTicker

Terrasos is a Colombian B Corp founded in 2013 that operates Latin America's pioneering habitat banking and biodiversity credit system, generating real, place-based conservation outcomes tied to 30-year legal commitments in some of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems. The core business genuinely finances ecosystem preservation and restoration — not a marketing wrapper — with credits tied to verified spatial units of forest and wetland. However, as a small frontier-market company in an emerging, lightly standardised asset class, its voluntary credit protocol is self-developed and not yet tested against internationally converging standards, which is the principal credibility risk investors should watch.

enablerTerrasos earns revenue by structuring and operating Habitat Banks — conservation areas in Colombia — then issuing and selling Biodiversity Credits (each representing 10 m² of ecosystem preserved or restored for 30 years) to corporations meeting mandatory environmental compensation obligations and to voluntary buyers seeking biodiversity impact.

Commitments & Certifications

B-Corp: Certified ↗other: Biodiversity Credit Alliance — contributing member / standard-setter ↗other: Colombia National Habitat Bank Registry — Regulatory certification ↗

Controversy & Greenwashing Watch

lowSelf-developed voluntary credit protocol lacks external standard alignment

Terrasos acknowledges its voluntary biodiversity credit protocol was built on Colombia's compliance framework rather than internationally converging standards, and the company itself notes the need to test credits against approaches being developed in other countries — a forward-looking integrity risk rather than a scandal.source ↗

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