Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
Since 2010, Chile's Law 20.412 has paid smallholder and family farmers via INDAP/SAG competitive rounds to restore degraded agricultural soils; 2025 Biobío-region …
Since FY2015-16, India's Finance Commission redirects 7.5-10% of central tax revenue to states by forest cover, moving ~$6.9-$12bn/year (2015-19) and ~$11.1bn in …
ArcelorMittal Liberia funds co-management of the 11,533 ha East Nimba Nature Reserve, home to chimpanzees, the Nimba toad and otter shrew, as …
Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi mine runs an 80,000 km² landscape biodiversity offset (~880x its footprint); WCS-verified khulan (~36,000) and goitered gazelle (~28,500) …
Parks Canada and the Haida Nation ran a five-year, C$2.5M rat-eradication programme (2009-2013) on Gwaii Haanas islands, aiding seabird recovery — though …
Botswana's national CBNRM policy (2007, piloted since the 1990s) channels tourism and hunting revenue to ~100 community trusts covering ~22% of national …
Since the 1980s Bangladesh's Forest Department has leased degraded state land to landless growers who plant trees, sharing timber-auction proceeds 40-65% with …
Since 2014 New Zealand's national biodiversity-offsetting guidance has let developers offset unavoidable habitat loss through resource consents aiming for 'no net loss' …
Norway's Environment Agency funds fish traps on 53 of 63 affected rivers — including a 400m trap at Seida on the Tana …
From the late 1970s, the Haryana village of Sukhomajri built check dams and a community water-rights institution (HRMS) that cut siltation into …
The World Bank's $150M 'Rhino Bond' (2022-2027) funds anti-poaching at two South African reserves via roughly $10M in conservation payments, with investor …
KEFRI and CIFOR-ICRAF trained Baringo County communities to convert invasive Prosopis juliflora into charcoal and fodder using improved kilns (~30% conversion efficiency); …
Horsh Beirut, a 33-hectare pine forest that is 72% of Beirut's public green space and was largely closed to residents from 1992-2016, …
A 275-village randomized controlled trial in West Kalimantan paid communities up to IDR 150 million (~US$10,800) to stay fire-free in the 2018 …
Uzbekistan's 2021 pledge to plant 1 billion trees was followed in 2022 by reports that 6.2M 'planted' trees were never registered and …
Skopje's 2023 Greening Master Plan logs 5.05M m2 of green area (12.07 m2/person, half the EU benchmark) and a digitised tree cadaster …
Hanoi's 2016 pledge to plant one million street and park trees by 2020 was met two years early and exceeded — over …
Built in six months with R24m emergency funding, this 2011 plant became South Africa's first direct potable reuse facility, meeting about 16% …
Entrance-fee revenue from Jatiluwih's UNESCO-listed rice terraces is split between district government and two customary villages to fund subak irrigation upkeep, but …
A $200M World Bank IDA credit approved in October 2022, plus $60M in Dutch and Spanish co-financing, funds flood protection and resettlement …
Since 2008, Océanium and the Livelihoods Carbon Fund replanted 79 million mangroves on 10,000+ hectares in Senegal; a 2020 peer-reviewed study found …
Canopy bridges strung across a 25-30 m pipeline right-of-way in Brazil's São João River Basin protected area recorded 455 common-marmoset and 257 …
Cyprus's UN-patrolled buffer zone bisecting Nicosia, off-limits to construction since 1974, has become an unplanned wildlife refuge: a 2007 UNDP-backed survey recorded …
Built in 2005-2008 as a 232 ML/day drought-emergency network feeding recycled water to power stations, with a never-activated potable link to Wivenhoe …
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