What We Do
95% of Brazil’s deforestation is illegal
CCCA uses the combined power of the law, data and analysis to make it stop.
In the last 5 years, the tree cover loss of the Colombian Amazon amounted over 841,000 hectares, the size of more than one and a half million football stadiums.
That’s as much as 1.5 million football stadiums.
CCCA analyses the main forest-risk commodities to discourage actors that facilitate deforestation through their supply chains and investments.
Peru is the country of the Amazon region that experienced the greatest primary forest loss related to palm oil
CCCA supports strategic initiatives to convey a message against the prevailing impunity on historical cases of large-scale deforestation linked to palm oil
Illegal gold mining causes significant socio-environmental impacts in the Amazon region
Approximately 44% of Peru’s gold exports and 85% of Colombia’s are estimated to be of illegal origin, fueling deforestation, desertification, water contamination, harm to wildlife, threats to Indigenous peoples, human trafficking, sexual violence, and forced labor.
Rapid cuts in methane emissions are vital to limit global warming in the next decade
Yet this critical piece of the climate puzzle is often overlooked.
Methane emissions are responsible for about 30% of current warming but they are difficult to track and measure. Now that technical data is improving, CCCA is translating it into concrete action.
Environmental contamination and human harm from mining
Cerro de Pasco is a mining town located on the high plateau of central Peru. Numerous Peruvian governmental authorities and NGOs, as well as international organizations, have reported that Cerro de Pasco is exposed to extreme levels of environmental pollution caused by mining which impacts on the health of the town’s inhabitants.