Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
Most practices in: China (15)
World's largest PES programme: China's Grain for Green converted 34.3M ha of sloped farmland to forest and grassland since 1999, paying 535 …
World Bank-financed terracing, afforestation and grazing bans across 1.56M ha of China's Loess Plateau (1994-2002) cut Yellow River sediment by 57Mt/year and …
The world's largest PES: since 1999 China has paid 30M+ rural households to convert ~29.8M hectares of sloping cropland to forest to …
Shenzhen verified 38,745 t of mangrove-protection carbon sink at Futian Nature Reserve (2010-2020) and auctioned 3,875 t in China's first mangrove carbon-credit …
A 14-hectare former steel-mill and shipyard on Shanghai's Huangpu River was rebuilt as a 1-mile constructed wetland that biologically treats ~2,400 tonnes …
China's first Verra- and CCB Gold-certified blue carbon project restored 380 hectares of mangroves in Zhanjiang (2015–2019), expected to offset 160,000 tonnes …
China's central government allocated CNY 20.7 billion (about US$3bn) to 16 pilot 'sponge cities' from 2015-2017; Wuhan alone built 389 water-retention projects …
China's first trans-provincial watershed PES: downstream Zhejiang pays upstream Anhui to protect Xin'an River water quality; CNY 2.2 billion exchanged 2012–2020, reducing …
Since 2004, Zhejiang province has paid forest owners and collectives annual per-area compensation to maintain designated 'public welfare forests' for water and …
Shenzhen's Guangming District retrofitted roads and drainage with permeable pavement, swales and constructed wetlands under China's national Sponge City pilot. Runoff-control rates …
Since 2011, China's Grassland Ecological Compensation Policy has paid herders 37.5-112.5 yuan/ha to reduce grazing, investing over 150 billion yuan across 13 …
China's first water trust fund: TNC, Alibaba Foundation and Wanxiang Trust seeded the Longwu Water Fund with 330,000 CNY in 2015 to …
Since 2006 Beijing has paid farmers upstream in Hebei's Chengde and Zhangjiakou 450-550 yuan/mu/year to convert 103,000 mu of rice paddies to …
In 2023 Beijing recycled 1.28 billion m³ of wastewater — nearly 30% of total water consumption — with 1.18 billion m³ returned …
With UNEP-GEF and EU-China funding, Ruoergai's wetland reserve administration dammed drainage canals to rewet part of the Tibetan Plateau's largest alpine peatland, …
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