Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
On its 4,600 ha ranch, Zimbabwe's Africa Centre for Holistic Management measured 31% less bare ground and 56% more litter cover (2001-2009) …
Since 1997, GEF-backed UNDP/UNOPS support has helped Yemen's Socotra Archipelago define 426 km2 of nature sanctuaries, national parks and resource-use zones via …
Quito's Botanical Garden turned 1,750 m² of mown grass in Bicentennial Park into seven native-plant microhabitats with 5,900+ plants of 40 species; …
An EU LIFE project (2018-2023) that built nature-based stormwater systems across four demonstration sites in Tallinn and Viimsi, cutting annual flood emergencies …
An EU LIFE-funded programme (2019-2025) converting irrigated Lisbon parkland into rain-fed meadows and planting over 107,000 trees and shrubs, cutting irrigation water …
Since 2008, Tajik villages in the Khatlon mountains have run markhor conservancies funded by regulated trophy-hunting permits, helping the national markhor population …
Cote d'Ivoire's 2024 Cocoa & Forests Initiative report shows a record 84,000 cocoa producers directly paid for environmental services, agroforestry expanded across …
Since 2010, Vietnam's nationwide Payment for Forest Environmental Services has raised ~VND 10,000bn (2008-2018), mostly from hydropower. Lam Dong piloted satellite forest-cover …
Sri Lanka's 2,000-year-old cascaded tank irrigation network, an FAO-designated agricultural heritage system since 2017, is being restored under a GEF/UNEP-backed programme after …
Seattle Public Utilities rebuilt a residential block (completed 2001) with vegetated swales instead of piped drainage. Two years of SPU/EPA-documented monitoring found …
Neochetina weevils released from 1995 cut Lake Victoria's 20,000-hectare water hyacinth mat to about 500 hectares by 2000, freeing Uganda's Owen Falls …
Tidal Moon, an Indigenous-owned enterprise, is replanting seagrass meadows in Shark Bay, Western Australia — home to endangered dugongs — after a …
Since 2002, IWVA has treated secondary wastewater effluent through ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis at Torreele, infiltrating up to 2.5 million m3/year into …
Since 2019, Indonesia's Ministry of Finance has channelled part of a transfer fund that rose 50% to USD 1bn in 2020 toward …
A World Bank- and government-financed rehabilitation of Boyukshor Lake near Baku dredged 2.8 million m³ of contaminated sludge and cut bottom-sediment pollution …
CARMABI has managed a 21.7km marine park along Curacao's southeast coast since 1983, sheltering 65+ coral and 350+ fish species; since 2015 …
Cambodia's Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary (292,690 ha) has issued 18.87M Verra-verified carbon credits since 2010, incl. a 2016 $2.6m sale to Disney, …
Nicaragua's RISEMP paid 138 cattle ranchers across 4,560 ha in Matiguás–Río Blanco (2003–2008) for silvopastoral land-use change, scored on a biodiversity/carbon index; …
Since 2022, Planète Urgence, Orange and Cameroonian communities have restored 100+ hectares of Wouri-estuary mangrove near Douala — including a 3-ha Bojongo …
A 40-farm Irish pilot paid farmers for measured pollinator-habitat quality via a 19-action scorecard rather than fixed prescriptions; median farm scores rose …
France's largest national park (3.39M ha, 40% of French Guiana) co-governs Amazon rainforest with Amerindian and Bushinenge communities; documents 1,200+ tree species, …
Satellite analysis found North Korea added 1.22M ha of forest in 2015-2024 — 73% of target — reversing prior decline, even as …
Nouakchott's dune "Green Belt," planted in 1975, has needed repeated rescues: 857ha fixed with 400,000 plants in the 2000s, then a new …
Three low-cost oyster breakwater reefs built on an eroding Bangladesh mudflat cut wave energy by up to 100% and erosion by 54% …
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