Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
A Wellington City Council-backed programme eliminated ship rats, Norway rats, stoats and weasels from the 1,086 ha Miramar Peninsula by November 2023, …
Treated wastewater from 2.5 million Israelis is filtered through sand-basin soil-aquifer treatment for six months, then pumped 100 km south to irrigate …
Using the Marshall Islands' Reimaanlok ('look towards the future') framework, MIMRA and National Geographic Pristine Seas designated a 48,000 km² sanctuary around …
Azerbaijan tripled Hirkan National Park's protected relict Caspian Hyrcanian forest from 29,760 ha (2004) to over 55,000 ha (2022–23), confirmed Caucasian leopard …
A $950k GEF grant plus $5.44M co-financing (2009–2017) helped Montenegro's environment ministry expand its protected-area system toward a 165,000 ha target and …
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Ecology, with UNDP and $5.68M in GEF grants plus $11.4M co-financing (2011–2020), restored degraded land and forests in the …
Luxembourg pays private forest owners EUR150/ha/yr (plus a EUR100/ha protected-zone supplement) to manage forests for climate, water and biodiversity under 10-year contracts; …
Since 2002 the City of Ghent has paid residents, schools and businesses EUR25-31 per m2 to install green roofs and, since 2023, …
Wales' 2012–2024 whole-farm agri-environment scheme paid farmers over £336m for water, biodiversity and peatland outcomes across roughly 1.3m hectares; independent ERAMMP evaluation …
World Bank-backed WACA ResIP paid local women and youth via AVOTODE to replant 283 ha of mangroves on Lake Boko-Zowla's degraded banks, …
CAREC used a Swiss Re grant to run Central Asia's first Payment for Ecosystem Services pilot in Kyrgyzstan's Chon-Aksuu watershed (2011–2014): ~400 …
Since the early 1990s, and expanded with a 1995 FEMA hazard-mitigation grant, Laguna Beach's fire department has paid contractors to graze goats …
South Africa's Kruger to Canyons Biosphere launched a R125m ($7m) catchment investment programme in 2023, clearing 1,500+ ha of invasive alien plants …
Milan's metropolitan afforestation initiative has planted 611,459 trees and shrubs since 2018-19 toward a 3-million target by 2030, backed by 70 municipalities …
A $45M World Bank IDA grant, approved Feb 2022, funds forest, pasture and soil-erosion restoration across southern Tajikistan's Vakhsh catchment, where erosion …
Since 2011, USAID and the US Forest Service have planted over 1.5 million native trees across Lebanon via the Lebanon Reforestation Initiative, …
Since 2005, Virginia's nutrient exchange lets dischargers trade nitrogen/phosphorus credits to meet Chesapeake Bay TMDL limits; in 2020 alone 316,330 lb N …
GEF/FAO-backed landscape restoration with the CECAB cocoa cooperative added, in 2023, São Tomé and Príncipe's first Payment for Ecosystem Services layer: Rabobank's …
60,000 Western Kenya smallholders adopted sustainable land management verified under the VCS, generating Africa's first certified soil-carbon credits (24,788 tCO2e). An IATP …
Quintana Roo's state government created the Mesoamerican Reef's first insurance-backed trust, using a hotel-bed tax to fund reef maintenance and buy parametric …
WWF and Sky Ocean Rescue funded Swansea University, Project Seagrass and Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum to plant the UK's first major seagrass restoration …
Freetown City Council pays community growers, mostly women and young people, per digitally verified surviving tree via a GPS/photo-audited app; about 500,000 …
Copenhagen's Cloudburst Management Plan (2012-) directs an estimated DKK 11-12 billion into blue-green stormwater infrastructure city-wide, cost-benefit-modelled to avoid roughly DKK 16 …
Since 2008 Rotterdam has paid building owners up to €500 per m³ of stormwater retained by green roofs, an avoided-cost alternative to …
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