1. Vida Silvestre Project

The Proyecto Vida Silvestre - PVS is an initiative for the conservation of biodiversity financed by Ecopetrol. Since 2014, in partnership with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Santo Domingo Foundation, the Fund for Environmental Action and Children has developped actions in the working landscapes.

PVS seeks to address the conservation challenge at Ecopetrol’s operation landscapes, with the goal of achieving the long-term conservation of biodiversity, through the implementation of conservation actions focused on meeting the requirements of populations of threatened species.

2. FIBRAS Essence and territory

FIBRAS is a cooperation agreement between the Humboldt Institute and Ecopetrol for the planning and management -under criteria of sustainable development- of biodiversity and its contributions to well-being in territories in Huila, Orinoquía and Magdalena Medio, considering science-based information. It seeks to strengthen the sustainable development of these areas of interest through the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity.

3. TNC AC01: Water management, Natural Climate Solutions and compensation initiatives

This agreement between TNC and Ecopetrol seeks to design, develop and/or promote water governance mechanisms, natural climate solutions, alternatives in forest carbon and conservation initiatives (preservation, restoration and sustainable use). In other words, it aims at contributing to water security, mitigation and adaptation to climate change as well as to the definition of actions and strategic areas for the conservation of biodiversity.

4. TNC AC02: Carbon Monitoring Protocol

This project begins with the design and implementation of a planting plan for 250,000 trees of native species in the department of Meta and in the foothills of the department of Caquetá. Subsequently, it implements a monitoring protocol to assess the survival rate of the planted plants and estimates the carbon absorption associated with the restoration process. Finally, it allows to identify, generate or strengthen the enabling conditions for the implementation and consolidation of restoration as a sustainable business opportunity and a nature-based solution for the mitigation of climate change.Briefly, it’s aim is the development of a carbon monitoring protocol for restoration projects, and strengthening of the enabling conditions for its implementation, whilst planting 250,000 trees in the departments of Meta and Caquetá.

5. ISA: Jaguar Connection

Conexión Jaguar is ISA's sustainability program in partnership with South Pole and Panthera, which aims at developping strategies that contribute to the conservation of biodiversity, the mitigation of the impact of climate change, the development of rural communities and the connectivity of the jaguar's natural habitats in Latin America. The latter conveniently coincide with the territories where the company has a presence.

6. ISA REDD+: Magdalena Medio Valley

This is a REDD+ project (Emission Reduction for Forest Deforestation and Degradation) located at the Middle Magdalena Region, which aims to actively contribute to the conservation and ecological connectivity of the barbacoas marsh that is nowadays threatened by extensive livestock farming.

The project’s main objective is to conserve and increase the connectivity of the forests and wetlands of the Barbacoas marsh DMI through restoration of riparian forest, enrichment of secondary forests and conversion of pastures to agroforestry and silvopastoral systems on land with conservation agreements.

7. CO2: Wetlands in the Middle Magdalena Region

CO2 Wetlands is a project that seeks to conserve and restore tropical ecosystems at the national level and freshwater wetlands in the Middle Magdalena and Magdalena Bajo, as well as to formulate and implement actions for the mitigation of GHG emissions generated by the degradation of these ecosystems.

8. Fundación Cataruben - Carbon in the Orinoco

Carbono del Orinoco is a specific agreement between the Cataruben Foundation and Ecopetrol through which it seeks to select 400,000 hectares in the departments of Meta and Vichada to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by preventing the transformation of natural ecosystems (savannahs and forests) in multiple private properties, as a strategy to encourage the conservation of biodiversity in the landscape of the highlands of the Colombian Orinoquia.

9. Natural Climate Solutions Portfolio

Ecopetrol's portfolio of natural climate solutions is a voluntary program created to identify and promote the development of quality emission reduction projects. South Pole, as a technical partner, will support and accompany these projects for their successful execution and permanence in the long term. The program is open to involve different initiatives that are being carried out in the national territory.

10. Cormacarena and Meta Government

The Regional Autonomous Corporation Cormacarena, the Government of Meta and Ecopetrol have established a cooperation agreement to develop a Payment for Environmental Services scheme in areas of strategic ecosystems in the middle and upper basin of the Guayuriba and Metica rivers. The project seeks to carry out training, follow-up and monitoring actions to the conservation agreements signed with local communities to implement the Payment for Environmental Services (PES) system in different properties, this in order to promote the conservation of High-value ecosystems as secondary vegetation of the tropical rainforest.

11. Fondo Acción - Blue and green carbon of the biogeographic Chocó

Fondo Acción and Ecopetrol have established a cooperation agreement with the aim of joining efforts to promote community initiatives in the biogeographic Choco region, for the execution of a project to reduce emissions or avoided emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) in the Agriculture, Forestry and Forestry sector. Other Land Uses (AFOLU).

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12. Pontificia Javeriana University of Bogotá

The Pontificia Javeriana University and Ecopetrol have established a cooperation agreement to develop standardized methods for capturing and storing Greenhouse Gases-GHGs in ecosystems of the Middle Magdalena, the Caribbean and the Orinoquia, as well as to experimentally evaluate techniques and/or technologies in Natural Climate Solutions-CNS. The research focuses on estimating the storage and capture capacity of GHGs (CO2, CH4 and N2O), conducting experiments in Natural Climate Solutions, strengthening scientific and technical capacities, and integrating knowledge systems in GHG monitoring.

13. Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM) and Natura Foundation

Within the framework of Ecopetrol's research in Natural Climate Solutions, a cooperation agreement is established with IDEAM and the Natura Foundation, which is signed in 2022, in order to update the national cartographic information on land cover in biennial periods and close the gap in standardized methods of GHG quantification and monitoring. This purpose is achieved through the use of frontier technology and the analysis, interpretation and modeling of spatial, ecological and climatic data of strategic ecosystems in Colombia, which allows the viability of national ST+I initiatives in carbon based on natural climate solutions and the diversification of the ecosystem portfolio for the development of mitigation and compensation initiatives for the country and Ecopetrol's decarbonization strategy.

14. Carbon & Forest Research Center Corporation (C&B)

Ecopetrol establishes a research alliance with the Carbon & Forests Research Center Corporation, with the objective of evaluating the capacity of capture, storage and flows of greenhouse gases in mangrove ecosystems of the Colombian Caribbean, through the experimental validation of natural climate solutions, with emphasis on restoration, rehabilitation, ecological recovery and conservation strategies.

15. Colombian Air Force (FAC) and High Technology Corporation (CODALTEC)

In conjunction with the Colombian Air Force, a research alliance is being developed that seeks to venture into aerospace sciences for the study of land cover and greenhouse gas emissions. In a first phase, the design and launch into space of the 
FACSAT2 - Chiribiquete nanosatellite (April, 2023) is carried out, which includes technology for the study of greenhouse gases under different emission contexts, both anthropogenic and natural.

16. Santo Tomás University of Bucaramanga

The Research in Agroforestry Systems with Cocoa - SAF Cacao - project is an initiative that began in 2021, in cooperation with the Santo Tomás University, for the development of technology proposals aimed at carbon capture and storage in cocoa production systems, as well as research into sustainable production strategies that favor food security conditions and Managing landscapes resilient to climate change.

17. Microsoft

In partnership with Microsoft, a platform is developed that integrates multiple digital capabilities for the design and study of Nature-Based Solutions in the territorial context of Colombia. Internet of Things (IOT) technologies are available for real-time monitoring of environmental variables; cloud computing and artificial intelligence for the development of analysis models of decarbonization strategies and climate solutions.

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