Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
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 …
Under a September 2023 decree enabling voluntary ecological compensation, Finland recorded one of its first private biodiversity-credit deals in March 2026: retailer …
Slovakia's 2023-2027 CAP Strategic Plan pays farmers via the Agri-Environment-Climate Measure (AEKO) and a companion eco-scheme for grassland, organic and biodiversity commitments …
Rwanda's FONERWA (est. 2012), Africa's first GCF-accredited national climate fund, has mobilised ~US$200M across 40+ projects, protecting ~20,000 ha from erosion and …
From 1976, Durrell, Mauritius's National Parks Service and the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation eradicated invasive goats (1979) and rabbits (1986) from Round Island. …
Under Alberta's 2013 Wetland Policy, developers who cannot avoid draining a wetland can pay an in-lieu fee funding replacement elsewhere; since 2020 …
Snowchange Cooperative, an Indigenous- and community-led NGO, has rewetted boreal peatlands across Finland — the 110-ha Linnunsuo mire and 874 ha of …
South Korea's Ministry of Environment ran a nationwide Nutria Eradication Project (2014-2022) using GPS-tracked field teams and capture incentives; recorded nutria habitat …
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+ …
Thailand's national coastal mangrove carbon scheme (T-VER, March 2023): 98 communities enrolled protecting 34,456 ha under 30-year agreements paying US$78/ha year 1 …
Plan Vivo-certified (PV_2011_006) community reforestation in Bolivia's Cochabamba Tropics. Smallholder farmers plant native mahogany, cedar, and 12 other species on deforested land; …
Germany's Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG) has required biodiversity offsetting since 1976. Eco-Accounts allow landowners to pre-register habitat improvements as tradable credits …
TNC's 2016 debt-for-nature swap ($21.6 M) and a 2018 World Bank blue bond ($15 M) funded SeyCCAT, expanding Seychelles marine protected areas …
Danone's Évian brand finances PES for 41 farmers across a 35 km² alpine catchment (Plateau de Gavot, Haute-Savoie) to protect mineral water …
Africa's longest-running community wildlife PES: Zimbabwe Rural District Councils market wildlife access to safari operators, distributing revenues to 50+ communal areas across …
Netherlands peatland carbon standard: farmers raise groundwater in drained peat meadows earning SNK-verified credits at €75–115/tCO₂e. Peat subsidence is ~2.8% of Dutch …
New Zealand’s NZD 1.185 billion pandemic-recovery conservation programme (2020–2025): 225 DOC-led projects employed 11,000+ workers for invasive species control and habitat restoration. …
Africa’s first water fund (2015): TNC and partners pay 50,000+ Upper Tana farmers to protect Nairobi’s water supply for 9M people. USD …
Pacific islands' first indigenous-owned Plan Vivo carbon project: Drawa communities conserve 4,120 ha of tropical rainforest on Vanua Levu, generating 18,800 tCO₂e/year. …
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 …
Largest biodiversity credit market in Australia: 381 stewardship agreements covering 109,911 ha under NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. A$467M Stewardship Payments Fund …
Queensland farmers earn Reef Credits — each equal to 1 kg of nitrogen prevented from reaching the Great Barrier Reef — in …
86 communal conservancies covering 16.6M ha (about 20% of Namibia) pay 230,000+ rural members to manage wildlife and natural resources. Elephant populations …
Nepal's jurisdictional REDD+ programme covering 1.7M ha of the Terai Arc Landscape: 2.4M tCO2e reduced 2018–2024, US$9.4M World Bank FCPF payment (2025). …
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