Sovereign · Americas · Latin America and the Caribbean

Colombia

What NATDAQ unlocks for the country — the asset stays sovereign, participating farmers and communities receive a defined share of the cashflow, and institutions take an equitable share alongside them. Per-asset economics, jobs, GDP uplift, and rural-economy impact across 1, 5, 10 and 25-year horizons.

ISO COLOECD memberDeveloping market← All sovereigns

Economic finance

$90bn

Total NATDAQ-channel financing, 25-year horizon

Finance income

$2.2bn

Annual sovereign cashflow (Conservation + MSW)

Materials

$312bn

Cumulative timber value, 25-year horizon

Carbon

$3.8bn

Creditable flux NPV · 8 GtCO₂e stock

QG value

3.8m jobs · $212.5bn GDP

Quantitative growth contribution, 25y

Asset class · Conservation

17.0% of Colombia's land is under protection.

The Conservation Note is priced at a sovereign-floor of $100/ha/year, written on a 20-year tenor. Stacking a new tranche each year creates permanent conservation funding. Revenue is generated 50% from sustainable forestry within the conserved estate and 50% from ecosystem-service outcomes — carbon, ESG, SDG, CSR, water, and sustainability programmes.

Protected area

188.6k km²

18,861,500 ha

Sovereign floor

$100/ha/yr

Auditable line-by-hectare

Annual sovereign revenue

$1.9bn

Across 18,861,500 ha

Note tenor

20-year

Stack annually for permanent conservation

Note PV per stack

$23.5bn

One annual issuance

Forestry component

$943.1m

50% of annual revenue

Ecosystem outcome component

$943.1m

50% — carbon · ESG · SDG · CSR · water

Direct management jobs

37.7k

Rangers + protected-area staff

Total jobs (incl. indirect)

56.6k

Including downstream

GDP uplift (25y)

$58.8bn

Sovereign multiplier applied

Marine PA share

41.1%

Of territorial waters

Asset class · Forestry

587.4k km² of forest. 53.3% of Colombia.

Each Tree Note is sized as a defined fraction of the projected harvest value of its species over the rotation period. The majority of note proceeds flows directly to participating farmers as working capital ahead of harvest; the farmer also retains a fixed share of the harvest revenue at maturity. The structure is designed so capital reaches the ground, not administrative overhead.

Top 25 tree species — current and forecast value

Top 25 catalogue: full per-tree fill is researcher commission (see methodology)

Species	Area (km²)	Current annual market	Future market (25y)	Tree Note value	QG market value	Rotation (y)	Data
Teak (plantation) Tectona grandis	9,000	$3.8bn	$94.5bn	$97.2bn	$223.6bn	22	Indicative
Mexican weeping pine Pinus patula	30,000	$1.8bn	$45bn	$43.2bn	$99.4bn	22	Deep
Melina Gmelina arborea	7,000	$1.7bn	$42.4bn	$34.7bn	$79.7bn	12	Indicative
Nogal cafetero / laurel Cordia alliodora	14,000	$1.7bn	$42bn	$39.9bn	$91.8bn	25	Indicative
Tambor Schizolobium parahyba	7,000	$1.1bn	$28bn	$22.4bn	$51.5bn	12	Indicative
Acacia Acacia mangium	6,000	$900m	$22.5bn	$16.5bn	$38bn	10	Indicative
Roble / flor morado Tabebuia rosea	13,000	$858m	$21.5bn	$19.5bn	$44.9bn	50	Indicative
Spanish cedar Cedrela odorata	4,000	$840m	$21bn	$19.2bn	$44.2bn	30	Deep
Eucalipto Eucalyptus grandis	6,000	$825m	$20.6bn	$13.5bn	$31bn	10	Indicative
Red mahogany euc Eucalyptus pellita	5,000	$770m	$19.3bn	$14bn	$32.2bn	10	Indicative
Chingalé Jacaranda copaia	9,000	$702m	$17.6bn	$14.9bn	$34.2bn	30	Indicative
Ceiba Ceiba pentandra	15,000	$660m	$16.5bn	$13.5bn	$31bn	40	Indicative
Caracolí Anacardium excelsum	12,000	$624m	$15.6bn	$13.2bn	$30.4bn	50	Indicative
Guayacán / ipêCITES II Handroanthus chrysanthus	9,000	$607.5m	$15.2bn	$15.5bn	$35.7bn	90	Indicative
Sande Brosimum utile	13,000	$546m	$13.7bn	$11.7bn	$26.9bn	50	Indicative
Choibá / almendroCITES II Dipteryx oleifera	11,000	$528m	$13.2bn	$14bn	$32.3bn	100	Indicative
Abarco Cariniana pyriformis	9,000	$450m	$11.3bn	$11.7bn	$26.9bn	80	Indicative
Cativo Prioria copaifera	9,000	$432m	$10.8bn	$9.5bn	$21.7bn	60	Indicative
Andean oak / roble Quercus humboldtii	14,000	$420m	$10.5bn	$9.8bn	$22.5bn	100	Indicative
Algarrobo / courbaril Hymenaea courbaril	9,000	$405m	$10.1bn	$10.1bn	$23.3bn	90	Indicative
Andiroba / güino Carapa guianensis	9,000	$360m	$9bn	$8.6bn	$19.7bn	70	Indicative
Caoba / mahoganyCITES II Swietenia macrophylla	6,000	$360m	$9bn	$10.2bn	$23.5bn	90	Indicative
Tecun pine Pinus tecunumanii	3,000	$330m	$8.3bn	$6.9bn	$15.9bn	20	Indicative
Pino candelillo Pinus maximinoi	2,500	$275m	$6.9bn	$5.8bn	$13.2bn	20	Indicative
Comino / Colombian rosewoodCITES II Aniba perutilis	3,000	$135m	$3.4bn	$3.4bn	$7.8bn	90	Indicative

Current annual market: area × yield × ex-farm price. Future market (25y): sustained-yield total ex-farm value. Tree Note value: sovereign-grade financing the species can support, computed under the EPC structuring model. QG market value: economic contribution to GDP (multiplier applied). CITES II species carry a trade restriction — permit chain-of-custody is required before they can list as freely-tradeable inventory. Per-species areas are planning-grade modelled estimates from national inventory species-composition shares; prices are mid-points of live ranges (tropical hardwood moves 20–40% intra-year on ITTO reports).

Cumulative harvest value (25y)

$312bn

Future ex-farm value, all species

Tree Note financing unlocked

$62.4bn

Sovereign-grade institutional capital

Operational capital deployed

$49.9bn

On-the-ground programme spend

Farmer total

$71.1bn

Working capital + harvest revenue

Direct forestry jobs

1.5m

Labour-intensive plantation profile

Indirect jobs

2.2m

Sawmill, pulp, panel, transport

GDP uplift (25y)

$143.5bn

Sovereign multiplier applied

Forest trend (decade)

-1.50 pp

2010-2020

Carbon · Flux-based, not stock-priced

Colombia's forest carbon — the flux is the asset.

Colombia's forests hold 8 GtCO₂e. The forest is a net source of 40 MtCO₂e/yr from deforestation pressure — the channel monetises the avoided emissions when Tree Note + Conservation Note deployment halts the loss (the REDD+ case). A carbon credit monetises the annual flux, not the standing stock. We report the recurring credit stream and the one-off stock asset value separately, and price against the CCP-labelled nature-based band — explicitly not the EU ETS compliance price.

Recurring credit revenue (the financeable stream)

Addressable flux

40 MtCO₂e/yr

Avoided-emissions opportunity

Additionality factor

40%

Conservative — only beyond BAU is creditable

Buffer + leakage

−15% / −10%

tropical biome (Verra non-permanence + leakage)

Net creditable flux

12.2 MtCO₂e/yr

≈ 0.2 tCO₂e/ha/yr

Nature credit band

$15–35/tCO₂

CCP-labelled nature-based (NOT EU ETS)

Annual credit revenue

$269.3m

At band mid, net of verification cost

Recurring credit NPV

$3.8bn

25y discounted at 5%

Carbon price as-of

2026-05-01

Refreshed daily when feed connected

Stock asset value (one-off balance-sheet figure — NOT credit income)

Forest carbon stock

8 GtCO₂e

Biomass + soil organic carbon

Stock asset value

$20bn

Band mid, deeply haircut (stock is not saleable)

EU ETS (macro context only)

€75/tCO₂

Compliance market — not used to value forest credits

Method: creditable flux = (project sequestration − baseline) × (1 − leakage) × (1 − buffer), valued as a discounted multi-year cash-flow (IPCC 2019; Verra VM0048 / AFOLU non-permanence tool; ART-TREES; Griscom et al. 2017). Carbon revenue is one component of the Conservation Note's 50% ecosystem-outcome share, alongside ESG, SDG, CSR, water, and sustainability. Stock data: Colombia IDEAM; Amazon + Andean forest.. Nature-credit price: CCP-labelled nature-based credit band (Verra VM0048 floor + ICVCM premium) (as of 2026-05-01). No live carbon tick is displayed — there is no licence-clean free real-time feed; figures are documented references refreshed on a defined cadence.

Material change · Colombia's economic trajectory

With NATDAQ vs without.

Colombia's baseline trajectory compounds at 1.7% real GDP growth and 1.5% employment growth — the dashed lines below. The solid lines add the NATDAQ-channel contribution over a 25-year build.

Real GDP, USD trillions

Baseline (1.7% YoY)Baseline + NATDAQ channel

Y25 delta: +$0.2T (+35.8%)

Baseline compounded from 2024 GDP at the country's published real growth rate. NATDAQ contribution is the 25-year cumulative GDP uplift, ramped across the horizon.

Total employment, millions

Baseline (1.5% YoY)Baseline + NATDAQ jobs

Y25 delta: +3.8m (+11.5%)

Baseline employment compounded at the country's published rate. NATDAQ contribution is direct + indirect jobs ramped to steady-state over the horizon. Current agricultural workforce: 3.40m.

Baseline data: World Bank WDI 2024 / national statistical offices. NATDAQ contribution derived from the country's natural-capital programme scale and EPC's structuring model. Refresh against latest national accounts before public quotation. Methodology and full assumption registry on the methodology page.

Asset class · Municipal Solid Waste

12.1m t of MSW per year. 243 kg per capita.

The MSW Note securitises a defined sovereign-floor share of the recoverable waste-stream revenue — gate fees, post-sort commodities, and energy recovery — discounted to a 25-year tenor. Capital flows into collection, sorting and processing infrastructure; the income stream funds the note.

Annual generation

12.1m t

Collection rate

81.0%

Recycling rate

17.0%

Recoverable value

$40/t

Blended gate + commodity + energy

Annual recoverable

$484m

MSW Note PV

$4.1bn

25-year tenor, sovereign-grade

Direct jobs

7.3k

Collection, sort, transfer, landfill

Indirect jobs

30.3k

Recycling, EfW, remanufacturing

Quantitative Growth Forecast

What NATDAQ unlocks for Colombia.

Aggregate financing, jobs, and GDP uplift across all four asset classes over four time horizons. All figures derive from the same model assumptions and sources documented in the methodology footer.

Horizon	Financing unlocked	Operational capital	Direct jobs	Indirect jobs	Total jobs	GDP uplift	% of country GDP	Farmer total
1-year	$30.1bn	$24.1bn	1.5m	2.3m	3.8m	$74.7bn	19.16%	$2.8bn
5-year	$40.1bn	$32.1bn	1.5m	2.3m	3.8m	$97.7bn	25.05%	$14.2bn
10-year	$52.6bn	$42bn	1.5m	2.3m	3.8m	$126.4bn	32.41%	$28.5bn
25-year	$90bn	$72bn	1.5m	2.3m	3.8m	$212.5bn	54.49%	$71.1bn

Channel finance · Farmer impact

The farmer's share.

Participating farmers and community land-holders receive working capital upfront — at planting — plus a defined harvest revenue share at maturity. The structure deploys capital to the ground, not into administrative overhead.

Working capital upfront

$39.9bn

Paid at planting

Harvest revenue

$31.2bn

Paid at harvest

Lifetime farmer total

$71.1bn

Participating households

68k

Estimated land-holders

Rural-economy spending

$71.9bn

Downstream local consumption

Total jobs (full chain)

3.8m

Post-farming employment

A landing pad for the rural economy.

Traditional agriculture is shrinking under automation, climate pressure, and consolidation. The NATDAQ channel creates skilled rural employment in forestry, conservation management, and waste recovery — work that absorbs displaced farm labour and adds capacity beyond current ag headcount.

Current agricultural workforce

3.40m

14.6% of total employment, 2022

NATDAQ channel — direct jobs (25y)

1.5m

45% of current ag workforce

NATDAQ channel — total jobs (25y)

3.8m

113% of current ag workforce

Reading this

Colombia's on-farm workforce of 3.40m faces structural decline. The channel does not displace those workers — it offers a credible re-employment path in plantation establishment, silviculture, ranger management, sorting infrastructure, and processing. ILO modelled.

Returns benchmark · Profit, not cost

Sustainability through profit, not cost.

Institutions participating in the Colombia Tree Note take an equitable share of the cashflow — alongside participating farmers and the sovereign. The cashflow share sits against the same return benchmarks as a corporate equity allocation, and uniquely also delivers sustainability metrics, brand value, and shareholder value through profit, not through the cost line.

Benchmark	Annualised return	Source
NATDAQ Tree Note (this country, sovereign-grade)	6.2%	Annualised investor cashflow share
Tesco PLC — operating margin on turnover	4.9%	FY25
Tesco PLC — Return on Capital Employed	14.6%	FY24/25
US broad market — Return on Invested Capital	10.1%	Damodaran Jan 2026
US Paper / Forest Products — ROIC	10.4%	Damodaran Jan 2026
US Farming / Agriculture — ROIC	7.7%	Damodaran Jan 2026
US REITs (yield comparator) — ROIC	3.7%	Damodaran Jan 2026
Sustainable timber funds — historical net IRR	5.9%	GIIN benchmark

ROCE / ROIC reflect each benchmark's published return on capital. The NATDAQ Tree Note figure is the projected annualised investor cashflow share — institutions participate in an equitable share of the cashflow, alongside the participating farmers and the sovereign. Past performance is not indicative of future results; figures are illustrative for institutional discussion.

Cross-channel · Litdaq

Litigation finance channel.

Colombia is rated developing on the EPC Litdaq market-depth scale. The cross-channel position lets a sovereign issuer monetise commercial litigation cashflows through the same EPC institutional framework as natural-capital notes.

Market depth

Developing

Legal services / GDP

1.0%

Notes

Active commercial arbitration; recent funding statute reform.

The only venue that does this

No other exchange coordinates this trade and data.

Sovereign natural-capital programmes have historically been financed bilaterally — bank by bank, project by project, with no common pricing surface and no institutional secondary market. NATDAQ is the only venue that lists sovereign-grade conservation, forestry, MSW, and litigation finance instruments on a single coordinated, AiGLe-graded surface — with a published per-country dataset, a structuring model that links natural assets to financeable cashflows, and a consistent institutional disclosure standard.

The asset stays on the sovereign balance sheet. The data stays sovereign. Only the cashflow rights are securitised. That coordination is the product.

Forecastable note value

Project Colombia Tree Note value over time →

How a Colombia Tree Note appreciates across rotation cycles, with biological mass accretion and harvest-cycle revenue marks. Year-by-year projection on a separate page to keep this brief tight.

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Approach & sources

How the figures are produced

All financing, jobs and GDP figures are produced by the NATDAQ structuring model — proprietary to EPC Holdings — applied to the country's natural-capital dataset. The model derives Tree Note, Conservation Note, and MSW Note pricing from species, biome, and waste-stream characteristics, and projects on-the-ground capital deployment, sustained employment, and GDP uplift over the note tenor.

Notes are AiGLe-graded prior to listing. The senior sovereign tranche of every NATDAQ-listed instrument is graded under AiGLe's published Four-Pillar analytical framework.

Primary input sources

Forest area & change: FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020.
Protected area share: World Bank / Protected Planet (UNEP-WCMC).
MSW: World Bank What a Waste 2.0; Eurostat for European countries.
Sectoral employment intensity: FAO Forest Sector Outlook; ILO sectoral briefs.
Ecosystem-service value: de Groot et al. 2012; Costanza et al. 2014.
Sovereign multiplier: IMF Fiscal Monitor / IMF WP 20/199.

Per-species market values are indicative ranges from ITTO and FAO sectoral data. Country-specific figures are refined under EPC's structuring engagement prior to issuance. Full structuring methodology and the NATDAQ rulebook are available to qualified institutional counterparties under NDA.

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