Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
3 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: Brazil (20)
Since 2020, Brazil's CONSERV programme has paid Amazon/Cerrado landowners ~$50-79/hectare twice yearly to conserve legally clearable forest, protecting over 30,000 hectares -- …
World's first jurisdictional REDD+ system (Acre State Law 2.308/2010), covering 15.4 M ha of Amazon forest; Standard Chartered-CDSA partnership to sell up …
Brazil's first ecological fiscal transfer (1991) redistributes ~R$500 million/year of state VAT revenue to municipalities hosting protected areas or water springs, spurring …
Brazil's oldest community PES: since 2007, the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation pays 583 riverine communities (BRL 50/household/month + community fund) to conserve 10.9 …
Since 2011, Brasília's water regulator ADASA and utility Caesb have paid producers in the Pipiripau basin to restore riparian buffers and control …
Since 2017, Germany and the UK have paid Mato Grosso, Brazil, for independently verified cuts in deforestation emissions via KfW. Phase 1 …
Since 2008, Rio de Janeiro's Guandu river-basin PES program has paid smallholders USD 6.25-31.25/ha/year to conserve or restore riparian forest; a peer-reviewed …
Multi-donor water fund protecting drinking water for 22 million São Paulo residents via PES to 430+ farmers across 11,000 ha in the …
Brazil's first municipal PES law (Lei 2.100/2005): Extrema, Minas Gerais pays 53+ landowners R$195/ha/yr to restore native forest and adopt conservation practices …
Brazil's 2021 federal PES law underpins Floresta+ Amazônia, a $96m Green Climate Fund scheme paying family farmers R$1,500-28,000 each to conserve forest; …
Brazil's pioneering Water Producer scheme, piloted 2008–2015 in São Paulo's Cantareira system, signed 41 PES contracts covering 342 hectares of forest restoration …
The Pact targets 15 Mha restored by 2050, favouring natural regeneration; a satellite study found 4.47 Mha regenerated 1985–2019 but 1.37 Mha …
A municipal PES scheme in São Paulo state pays smallholders to restore riparian forest and protect springs in the Ribeirão Guaratinguetá watershed, …
Brazil's INPE space agency built DETER, a near-daily satellite deforestation-alert system, to target Amazon law enforcement; a peer-reviewed causal evaluation found DETER-linked …
After coffee-plantation deforestation dried up Rio's springs, an 1861 ordinance ordered replanting of the Tijuca massif. The city's Refloresta Rio program continues …
Since 1995, Minas Gerais has redistributed a share of state VAT revenue to municipalities hosting protected areas, dry forest or sanitation infrastructure …
Since the 1990s, Curitiba has let landowners who preserve forest remnants sell their unused building rights to developers elsewhere in the city …
Canopy bridges strung across a 25-30 m pipeline right-of-way in Brazil's São João River Basin protected area recorded 455 common-marmoset and 257 …
Created by Brazil's 2012 Forest Code but only operationalised in October 2025, the CRA lets landowners with surplus native vegetation sell tradable …
Two decades of cat sterilisation on Brazil's Fernando de Noronha archipelago have not curbed the feral population, estimated at 1,287 animals in …
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