Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
3 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: South Africa (17)
Since 1995 South Africa has paid the unemployed to clear water-hungry invasive alien plants — 2.5M+ hectares cleared and 300,000+ people employed …
TASC and Meat Naturally Africa's GRASS project issued 266,255 Verra VM0042/CCB-certified carbon units for regenerative grazing on 95,000+ ha of communal rangeland …
Since 1982, Durban's eThekwini Municipality has protected a statutory open-space network now covering roughly 940 km2 of the city; a 2017 World …
Since 2003, Eskom has partnered with BirdLife South Africa and the Middelpunt Wetland Trust to protect the wetlands feeding its Ingula Pumped-Storage …
Since 2018 the Greater Cape Town Water Fund has cleared 46,000+ hectares of invasive alien vegetation, recovering 15.2 billion litres of water …
National voluntary programme where private and communal landowners receive rates exemptions and technical support in exchange for conservation commitments; has secured >1.5 …
City of Cape Town and TNC fund invasive alien tree clearance since 2018. By Oct 2023: 46,000+ ha cleared across 7 mountain …
Since 2004, South Africa has replanted spekboom across ~800,000 hectares of degraded Karoo rangeland; a 2024 World Bank outcome bond and 2026 …
A US$3.5m GEF project (2012–2018) trained over 5,000 people in integrated fire management across four Western Cape communities in South Africa's fire-dependent …
South Africa's national public works programme paying community workers to rehabilitate degraded wetlands through invasive alien plant removal, bio-engineering and re-vegetation; 1,300+ …
South Africa's Kruger to Canyons Biosphere launched a R125m ($7m) catchment investment programme in 2023, clearing 1,500+ ha of invasive alien plants …
Since 2001, a private consortium (majority Veolia/Vivendi) has run a 47.5 ML/day plant reclaiming Durban's wastewater to near-potable industrial standard under a …
Greening Soweto planted 200,000 trees by 2010 to redress apartheid-era tree-cover inequality. A 2018 independent field survey found only 43% survived — …
The World Bank's $150M 'Rhino Bond' (2022-2027) funds anti-poaching at two South African reserves via roughly $10M in conservation payments, with investor …
Cape Town's Philippi Horticultural Area sits over the Cape Flats Aquifer's key recharge zone. A 2018 impact study urged its protection; in …
A 2025 Stellenbosch University cost-benefit study of Langeberg Mountain fynbos found prescribed-burning benefits exceed costs, yet 69% of surveyed farmers avoid burning …
Built in six months with R24m emergency funding, this 2011 plant became South Africa's first direct potable reuse facility, meeting about 16% …
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