Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
2 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: Colombia (17)
Conservation International and Colombian partners' Vida Manglar project protects and restores mangroves across Cispatá Bay, scaling from 7,500 to 11,000 hectares; the …
Since 2009, Agua Somos has pooled Bogotá's water utility, The Nature Conservancy, Fundación Bavaria and public/multilateral funders into a COP $4.6 billion …
Colombia's first Habitat Bank to issue tradeable Voluntary Biodiversity Credits protects 340 ha of Andean cloud forest in Támesis, Antioquia; each credit …
Multi-stakeholder water fund linking EPM, Coca-Cola, Postobon, IDB and TNC to pay upstream farmers for watershed conservation across 23,000 priority hectares, securing …
Colombia's national voluntary PES marketplace: private companies and public entities compensate their ecological footprint by paying >13,000 rural and indigenous families to …
Since 2016 Medellín's Secretariat of the Environment has built 30 green corridors (70+ ha, 2.5M plants, 880,000 trees) along roads and waterways; …
Colombia's Decreto-Ley 870/2017 created a national legal framework paying landowners to conserve páramos, forests and wetlands; by 2024 government figures reported ~743,000 …
Bogotá's Secretaría de Ambiente delivered 13,000 m² of green roofs and vertical gardens by mid-2018 (against a 20,000 m² by-2020 target), while …
Medellín turned 18 roads and 12 waterways into 30 shaded 'Corredores Verdes,' planting ~880,000 trees and 2.5 million smaller plants since 2016. …
Since 2012 Colombia's IDEAM has run SMByC, a satellite-based forest and carbon monitoring system using Landsat, Sentinel-2 and other imagery to track …
Solidaridad / Rabobank Acorn ex-post carbon-payment programme for ~1,200 smallholder coffee farmers in Cauca, Colombia; satellite-verified Plan Vivo certificates paid one farmer …
A GEF/World Bank-financed program paid Colombian cattle ranchers directly to convert degraded pasture into tree-and-shrub silvopastoral systems across five zones — one …
Medellín's Green Corridors programme planted thousands of trees and shrubs along 30 roads and waterways from 2016, cutting monitored air temperatures by …
Since 2022, Bogotá requires developers who fell an urban tree to plant five in return, or pay a monetary equivalent, under a …
Cali's municipal environment agency DAGMA pays rural landowners to protect the city's water sources: 238 agreements signed by June 2026 covering 2,500+ …
Colombia's Resolution 1517/2012 created a mandatory, ratio-based (up to 9:1) biodiversity offset system for mining and infrastructure licensing. Case studies quantify offset …
Savimbo pays 70 smallholder families across 3,184.5 ha of Colombian Amazon rainforest for camera-trap-verified jaguar sightings, issuing 36,952 voluntary biodiversity credits since …
Open full copilot Grounded in cited practices — always check the sources.
