Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
Kenya's first REDD+ project: Wildlife Works protects 200,000 ha of dry Acacia-Commiphora forest between Tsavo East and West National Parks, with 13.9 …
Aboriginal-owned carbon project in western Arnhem Land: Traditional Owners apply strategic early dry-season burning over 28,000 km2 to reduce late-season wildfires, earning …
A 20-year Plan Vivo agroforestry-carbon scheme run by ECOTRUST: 50,000+ smallholders, 34,000 ha, ~7.5 MtCO2, US$8.7M in performance-based payments, with most revenue …
The UK's government-backed standard for woodland-creation carbon: validated projects are predicted to sequester ~13 MtCO2 over their lifetime, with a public registry …
Since 2020, Brazil's CONSERV programme has paid Amazon/Cerrado landowners ~$50-79/hectare twice yearly to conserve legally clearable forest, protecting over 30,000 hectares -- …
From 1980, farmer Yacouba Sawadogo revived zaï planting pits in Burkina Faso's Yatenga province, helping plots reach ~1,500 kg/ha of millet/sorghum vs …
Colombo's 2016 Wetland Strategy protects a 1,900-hectare wetland complex absorbing roughly 40% of the city's floodwater; Sri Lanka must keep 90% intact …
Israel's largest landfill — 25 million tonnes dumped 1952–1998 — was capped and redesigned by architect Peter Latz into an 800-hectare park. …
Since 2012, Traditional Owners and rangers at Fish River Station, NT, have used early dry-season burning across 178,000 ha to prevent destructive …
DOC manages the 10,201 ha Kopuatai Peat Dome, New Zealand's largest unmodified restiad bog and a Ramsar site since 1989, whose peat …
United Utilities' £22.2M Sustainable Catchment Management Programme (2005-2015) paid tenant farmers across 57,000 hectares of Peak District and Forest of Bowland moorland …
EU LIFE programme (2014-2021) that rehabilitated 55 peatlands across 14 Natura 2000 sites in the French Jura, neutralising 26 km of drains …
Plan Vivo- and Gold Standard-certified dryland restoration in Tigray, Ethiopia: landless and smallholder farmers have restored 30,000+ ha since 2016, sequestering a …
After 1996 and 2002 wildfires choked Denver's reservoirs with sediment, Denver Water and the US Forest Service treated 120,000+ acres of watershed …
The EU-funded LIFE Peat Restore project rewetted about 1,350 ha of degraded fen in Poland (part of 5,300 ha across five countries) …
The EU LIFE-funded PeatCarbon project (2022–2027) rewets 5,414 hectares of drained peatlands in Latvia and Finland, developing a verified Baltic carbon-credit methodology …
Blue Ventures and Velondriake communities protect 1,200+ hectares of mangroves in southwest Madagascar under Plan Vivo + CCB Gold—the world's first validated …
Plan Vivo-certified community carbon project in La Mosquitia—Honduras's last large primeval forest. Miskito fire brigades protect 1,600+ ha of pine savanna; ~400 …
World's first jurisdictional REDD+ system (Acre State Law 2.308/2010), covering 15.4 M ha of Amazon forest; Standard Chartered-CDSA partnership to sell up …
Indonesia's FCPF ERPA for East Kalimantan (signed Nov 2020) commits up to US$110 million for 22 million tCO2e; in Nov 2022, Indonesia …
Estonia's EAFRD-funded Rural Development Plan pays private landowners €60–134/ha for Natura 2000 management restrictions. By 2019: €4.3 M/year for 64,000 ha of …
PNG's REDD+ programme verified 17M tCO₂e of avoided deforestation (2014–2016), earning USD 63.4M in GCF results-based payments (July 2025). Covers 1.4M ha …
Plan Vivo–certified community reforestation with 4,000+ smallholder families across 17,000+ ha in Estelí highlands. All 2015–2021 credits independently verified; US$3.1M paid to …
Portugal's national PES pilot (Resolução 121/2019): Fundo Ambiental pays 14 landowners €3.7M over 20 years to conserve 27,674 ha — Serra do …
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