Cámara Verde de Comercio Colombia (Colombia Green Chamber of Commerce)

Status: 🟢 Green Chamber Established

Global Green Chamber in Colombia is anchored by an established Green Chamber that convenes sustainability-driven businesses, supports green entrepreneurship, and strengthens responsible value chains.

Board of Directors

This section highlights the Colombian Green Chamber’s leadership and governance.

Mauricio Cárdenas


President of Cámara Verde de Comercio Colombia

Lina Paola Bautista Mendoza


Vice President

Martha Lucia Figueroa


Board of Directors

Jorge BuendĂ­a

Board of Directors

Catalina Silva

Board of Directors

Karen Sánchez

Board of Directors

Laura Restrepo

Board of Directors

Fernando PinzĂłn

Board of Directors

What We Do in Colombia

  • Convene sustainability-driven businesses and SMEs
  • Support green value chains and market access
  • Deliver capacity building and training
  • Promote green economic development through collaboration

Featured Organization (Anchor Institution)

Cámara Verde de Comercio

As the first Green Chamber of Commerce in Latin America, the Colombian Green Chamber connects, strengthens, and provides continuous support to companies (with a focus on green startups & SMEs), organizations, and individuals committed to social and environmental well-being. Through its green business networks and value chains, the Green Chamber generates a collaborative system of a transparent and fair economy where companies promote social development and harmony with their natural environment.

***Categories: Multinational Companies, SMEs and Sustainable Entrepreneurs, Rural Business, Organizations, Foundations and Social Enterprises, State Agencies, Individuals and Communities

Partners in Colombia

The organizations below support Colombia’s sustainability ecosystem and strengthen the Green Chamber’s work through collaboration, community engagement, and environmental leadership.

Fundación Humedales Bogotá

The Fundación Humedales Bogotá is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating about the importance of the Bogotá wetlands and highlighting their constant threats. They advocate for participatory environmental management to the communities of Bogotá. Through inclusive events, they promote awareness, training and formulate strategies that provide guidelines to better understand the conservation of wetlands. Much of the work they do revolves around improving the public’s knowledge of environmental conservation and biology-centered topics.

***Categories: Sustainability, Communities, Education

FundaciĂłn Natura

Natura, founded in 1986, is a leader in the conservation and restoration of many preserved lands in Colombia. The organization involves community members in restoration efforts at each region through introductory training and detailed end goals. Natura also catalogues species found in preserved areas to monitor and analyze their biodiversity and species richness. Yearly projects have also involved aiding fishing communities to capture responsibly and properly maintain influential fish populations and their habitats. The organization continues to work in partnership with region locals and government representatives to successfully manage natural resources and conserve Colombia’s biodiversity.

***Categories: Education, Biodiversity, Restoration

Movimiento Ambientalista Colombiano

The Colombian Environmental Movement is an organization that promotes the preservation and protection of the environment through proper management of renewable and non-renewable resources. They do work to promote and manage environmental protection in native territories and implement training processes in environmental education in many different communities. Some of the projects that they take part in include “Plastic Asphyxiates the Planet”, a campaign that seeks to encourage work between the rural, urban and indigenous communities of Colombia through the implementation of environmental education tools, and “Moratorium on Fracking”, which was implemented to suspend the exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbon deposits.

***Categories: Education, Energy, Renewables, Environmental Protection

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