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 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 …
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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