Reforestation with Impact: Evaluation of Carbon Insetting Proposals for Oxfam Intermón in Latin America
Carbon insetting only works when it’s built on community trust.
Oxfam Intermón set out to reach Net Zero by 2045, not by buying credits on the open market, but by investing directly in reforestation and forest enrichment across four forest-frontier landscapes where it already had deep community roots: Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Antela served on the independent expert panel commissioned to evaluate investment proposals across these geographies, assessing additionality, land-tenure risk and financial viability, and testing whether community economic interest and forest conservation were structurally aligned, not just narratively linked.