Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
Since independence in 1975, Cabo Verde has expanded afforested land from about 3,000 to over 90,000 hectares by 2011 — nearly 50 …
After the 2,000-year-old Ifugao terraces were placed on UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger in 2001 over deforestation, disuse and earthquake …
Bali's millennium-old subak system — farmer collectives coordinated through water temples — manages irrigation for roughly 19,500 UNESCO-protected hectares of rice terraces, …
Since 2004, Zhejiang province has paid forest owners and collectives annual per-area compensation to maintain designated 'public welfare forests' for water and …
ETH Zurich's Crowther Lab built Restor, a free, Google Earth Engine-based platform where anyone can map, monitor and share data on restoration …
From 2010–2022, Ireland's Burren Programme paid 328 farmers across 23,000 ha of karst grassland by ecological scorecard rather than prescription; independent evaluation …
Since 1978, Ho Chi Minh City has replanted roughly 20,000 ha of mangroves defoliated by US wartime herbicide spraying, earning Vietnam's first …
Since 1988, Zürich's Bachkonzept has systematically separated clean rainwater from sewage and reopened culverted streams, daylighting about 20 of the city's roughly …
Bangkok rebuilt a 41-hectare former tobacco factory into a wetland park retaining up to 200,000 m³ of monsoon stormwater and cleaning up …
Warsaw's Green Building Standard, mandatory for city-owned buildings since July 2025, requires every new municipal project to calculate a permeability-weighted Blue-Green Infrastructure …
Taipei's New Building Greening Rules require a 40-70% Green Plot Ratio on new construction, feeding Taiwan's island-wide EEWH certification system (12,585 buildings …
Misiones province registered Argentina's first government-led jurisdictional REDD+ programme under Verra's JNR framework, covering ~1.5M ha of Atlantic Forest and verifying ~10.2M …
Since 2019, a private indemnity insurance product has paid coastal families in Barra de Santiago, El Salvador to restore mangroves: 8 ha …
EU Horizon 2020's RECONECT project modelled nature-based measures across Serbia's flood-prone Tamnava basin, finding 20-47% reductions in flood extent, volume and damage …
Melbourne's 2012 Urban Forest Strategy set a 20-year target to double tree canopy from 20% to 40% by planting over 40,000 trees …
After Wangari Maathai's 1998–99 campaign halted illegal development, Friends of Karura Forest has co-managed Nairobi's 1,041-hectare urban forest with Kenya's Forest Service …
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 …
In April 2024 Peru granted its first Concession for Conservation over a lomas fog-oasis: 6,449 hectares in Ica region, protected 30+ years …
A 1999 IUCN valuation found Kampala's Nakivubo papyrus swamp removes nutrients from city wastewater worth US$1–1.75 million a year, roughly matching the …
Since January 2021, philanthropist-led Clifton Urban Forest has planted 700,000+ native saplings using the dense Miyawaki method on a reclaimed 200-acre former …
Under a 2011 EPA/PA DEP consent order, Philadelphia Water Department has built 3,850+ 'greened acres' of rain gardens, bioswales and green roofs, …
After the 2010–11 Canterbury earthquakes, the Crown bought out roughly 8,000 liquefaction-hit properties along the Ōtākaro/Avon River and is converting the 600-hectare …
Since 2020, Freetown has planted over 1.2 million trees (82% survival, GPS/photo-verified), paying residents as 'tree guardians' via carbon-market tokens, aiming for …
A $10M Green Climate Fund grant backing FAO-led gum-arabic agroforestry and rangeland restoration across Sudan's Kordofan states, targeting 275,000 hectares and 1.58 …
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