Hoyos Estrada, Claudia Helena2012-07-162012-07-1620091909-0455http://hdl.handle.net/10567/544This article registers the most important aspects related to the project formulation under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol and, more specifically, the project called “Más bosques para Medellín: un ambiente sano para el presente y el futuro” (more forests for Medellín: A sane environment for the present and the future), which aims to get international resources, selling carbon credits by establishing forest plantations, silvopastoral systems and models of assisted natural regeneration, keeping in mind the social, economical and cultural traditions of the population that live in the surroundings of Medellín. The formulation of the forestry CDM project for Medellín was made via a strategic alliance between the Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá (Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley), the Secretaría de Medio Ambiente del Municipio de Medellín (Environmental Secretary of the Medellín Municipality) and the Corporación Autónoma Regional de las Cuencas del río Negro y Nare – CORNARE (Autonomous Regional Corporation of the Negro and Nare Rivers, CORNARE) under the inter-administrative agreement No. 287, 2007.esCambio climáticoÁrea Metropolitana del Valle de AburráCorporación Universitaria LasallistaMecanismo de desarrollo limpio (MDL)Mercado del carbonoCertificados de emisiones reducidas (CER)Corporación Autónoma Regional de las Cuencas del río Negro y Nare (Cornare)SilviculturaSilvopastoreoSistemas agroforestalesArticle