Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
ITC's Kovai paperboard unit became the world's 2nd, and India's 1st, facility to earn AWS Platinum water certification (2019-20), rejuvenating catchment structures …
China's first water trust fund: TNC, Alibaba Foundation and Wanxiang Trust seeded the Longwu Water Fund with 330,000 CNY in 2015 to …
Solidaridad / Rabobank Acorn ex-post carbon-payment programme for ~1,200 smallholder coffee farmers in Cauca, Colombia; satellite-verified Plan Vivo certificates paid one farmer …
Rabobank Acorn / Solidaridad / Lutheran World Relief agroforestry programme with ~1,000 coffee producers in San Martín, Peru; over 10,000 tCO2 removed …
IOC and Tree Aid agroforestry programme across 90 villages in Mali and Senegal targeting 2,120 ha and 200,000 tCO2 via Plan Vivo …
Florida's SFWMD pays ranchers near Lake Okeechobee, under 10-year contracts, per acre-foot of water retained and pound of phosphorus kept from the …
Heredia's public utility ESPH has charged customers a watershed fee (US$0.01-0.03/m3) since 2000 to pay upstream landowners ~US$120/ha/year, reaching ~1,900 ha under …
Since California's first conservation bank in 1995, CDFW has approved 97 banks covering about 73,948 acres (2024), generating 1,406.9 new credits in …
A three-phase cat eradication (2002–2006) let seabirds recolonize Ascension Island's mainland after roughly 180 years of absence: Ascension frigatebirds grew from 2 …
WWF and CARE brokered payments from Lake Naivasha's flower-export farms to c.785 upstream smallholders (of 5,000) who terrace and reforest the Aberdare …
Manila's Maynilad utility has reforested about 2,420 ha of the Ipo-Angat watershed since 2007 (1.64M+ trees), with government forestry regulator DENR independently …
A $9.1M Green Climate Fund project — the GCF's first ever — helped 120+ Indigenous communities in Peru's Datem del Marañón manage …
Plan Vivo-certified agroforestry programme restoring degraded pasture in Petén, Guatemala since 2019; a genuine, certified effort, but the developer's own reported scale …
A $200,000 Coca-Cola Foundation grant funded a 6.6-mile fence protecting 1,400 acres of native Koʻolau forest on Oʻahu from invasive species, safeguarding …
Since 2011 the Timorese foundation FCOTI has paid over 1,000 smallholder farmers in Manatuto Municipality to plant and maintain agroforestry trees under …
Argentina and Chile have run a binational GEF/FAO-funded programme since 2008 to control 65,000-150,000 invasive North American beavers damaging up to 40,000 …
Since 2006 Beijing has paid farmers upstream in Hebei's Chengde and Zhangjiakou 450-550 yuan/mu/year to convert 103,000 mu of rice paddies to …
A 2012 PNAS study found Alberta oil-sands mining will destroy 29,555 ha of peatland, releasing up to 47.3 million tonnes of carbon. …
Suriname (~93% forest cover) runs a national jurisdictional REDD+ programme (NIMOS/SBB) that generated ~10M tCO2e in UNFCCC-validated results, 2018-2020. A GCF results-based …
Iceland's 'Bændur græða landið' scheme pays farmers fertiliser, seed and cash to revegetate eroded land, run by the state Soil Conservation Service …
Slovenia's KOPOP scheme pays farmers under its 2023-2027 CAP Plan for water, soil and climate practices — EUR 519.6M budgeted, EUR 39M …
A rare independent, peer-reviewed evaluation found Ambatovy's nickel mine near Moramanga is on track to offset the 2,064 ha of rainforest it …
Since 1992 Munich's public utility SWM has paid farmers in the Mangfall Valley catchment to convert to organic farming under 18-year contracts, …
Japan's Ministry of the Environment declared the small Indian mongoose eradicated from Amami Oshima in 2024 after a 25-year, ¥3.57bn campaign; a …
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