In February last year, Argos’ commercial monocrop plantation [in San Onofre in northern Colombia] was approved for the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) carbon trading scheme…Argos claims the teak plantation is helping fight climate change and contributing to the sustainable development of a conflict scarred region, but...[s]urvivors from the paramilitary era and land restitution campaigners claim the plantation and its CDM status is not only an attempt to cash in on the lucrative carbon credits market, but also legitimise a mass land grab that followed paramilitary violence…Camilo Abello, the vice-president of corporate affairs at Argos, claims the company entered “a completely peaceful zone...According to Abello, the company is helping the region by creating jobs. “We don’t think that we are taking advantage, on the contrary we are supporting the reconstruction of the fabric of society, we are investing in a post-conflict zone,” he said.