About us

CARBO Sostenible is a spin-off from the company OPTIM Consult, both founded by Juan Andrés López Silva. CARBO has experience in developing projects and policies to tackle Climate Change, including carbon emissions reduction projects, including sectors such as: energy, transport, agribusiness, among others.

CARBO is a founding member of the Colombian National Carbon Association (ASOCARBONO) and the Association for the Reduction and Removal of GHG Emissions (ASOREDD+).

About our work

CARBO is a Colombian company that promotes sustainable development by providing strategic environmental consulting services, so that socially and environmentally responsible companies and institutions can design and execute policies, strategies, programs and projects for productive or social development.

CARBO also develops and finances projects that contribute to climate change mitigation and that generate certified carbon emission reductions (carbon credits). These include large conservation and nature-based solutions projects, and productive projects in the sanitation, energy, transport and industry sectors.

For this, CARBO has a multidisciplinary team of professionals, committed to the development of green businesses and projects with social impact, and who have experience and training that allow them to develop and implement the projects that their clients entrust.

Our founder

Juan Andrés López Silva

Founder and Manager

He is a Business Administrator, M.A. in International Economics and Environment from the Johns Hopkins University International School for Advanced Studies. He has over 25 years of experience in design, financing, and implementation of environmental and sustainable development projects and policies in Colombia, Latin America, and other developing countries. He has also leaded International Cooperation, bilateral schemes and voluntary market negotiations and programs, and has developed environmental and social strategies and policies for the infrastructure sector.

He has designed and developed projects in areas such as:

Climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Rural development, sustainable agribusinesses, and productive value chains for vulnerable communities.
REDD+ and forest conservation.
Carbon financing for the CDM, bilateral schemes, and the voluntary market.
Energy, transport, and urban planning.

As international consultant in energy, transport, environment, and social project management, he has worked and interacted with companies and institutions such as ECOPETROL, PETROBRAS, World Bank, IFC, Interamerican Development Bank, CAF, PNUD, USAID, FINDETER, BANOBRAS and various ministries and institutions related to the environmental, energy, transport, and agriculture sectors, nationally e internationally.