Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
6 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: France (25)
EU LIFE programme (2014-2021) that rehabilitated 55 peatlands across 14 Natura 2000 sites in the French Jura, neutralising 26 km of drains …
France's 2021–2024 national PES pilot paid nearly 3,500 farmers across 130 territories for water-quality, soil and biodiversity outcomes, contracting up to roughly …
To keep nitrates out of its mineral-water aquifer, Vittel (Nestlé Waters) pays catchment farmers via the Agrivair intermediary to adopt low-input agriculture …
Eau de Paris, with 80% Seine-Normandie water-agency funding, contracts farmers on its catchments to cut pesticides; reported 2023 pesticide use down 77% …
Danone's Évian brand finances PES for 41 farmers across a 35 km² alpine catchment (Plateau de Gavot, Haute-Savoie) to protect mineral water …
Europe's first supply-side biodiversity compensation site: CDC Biodiversité restored 357 ha of orchards to rare Crau steppic grassland (€12.5M; 2008–10). Great bustard …
France's MAEC scheme pays Occitanie farmers €153–204/ha in five-year contracts to graze wildfire fuel breaks; one Gard farmer earns ~€9,000/year for 60ha, …
About 50 farmers near one drinking-water intake are paid €80–125/ha when residual soil nitrogen at the start of winter stays under a …
A five-year pilot pays 30 sugar-beet and flax farmers in France's Hauts-de-France and Normandy regions for biodiversity-friendly practices, scored on a 17-theme …
France's state-run Label Bas-Carbone certifies livestock and crop farms under the CarbonAgri methodology; by 2020, 391 farmers had signed carbon contracts, but …
Paris is de-paving and greening its 760 public schoolyards to create 'climate shelters'; a 2018–2023 EU-funded pilot instrumented 10 sites and measured …
The Rennes drinking-water authority pays for water quality through public procurement of food from farms in its catchments, with a bonus of …
Métropole de Lyon's Plan Canopée (2017–2030): 25 actions in 4 axes; public-space trees rose from 42,000 (1990) to ~100,000; canopy ~27% with …
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