Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
Built on the former Atatürk Airport site, Istanbul's 121.5-hectare National Garden opened in November 2025 with 20,000+ trees and a 2.5km waterway, …
A $200M World Bank programme building drains, retention basins and river dredging to protect Accra's flood-prone informal settlements. An independent interim evaluation …
Accra's Korle Lagoon restoration dredged one of the world's most polluted water bodies and built new drainage and sewage treatment to cut …
Romania's SUMAL 2.0 timber-tracking system, launched January 2021, layers Sentinel and Landsat satellite imagery, radar and GPS over every logging and transport …
A tribal-owned Tamil Nadu company, seeded with a Rs 25 lakh state SC/ST Startup Fund grant, clears invasive Lantana camara from Sathyamangalam …
Riyadh's US$11bn programme targets 7.5m trees by 2030, irrigated by treated wastewater. No cumulative delivery figure has ever been published, and peer-reviewed …
Chile's 2023 Ley 21.600 created a national legal mechanism for voluntary paid contracts to conserve or restore ecosystems; its first real-world test, …
EarthAcre's biodiversity-credit pilot paid 256 Maasai landowners $175,000 in April 2025 — $5 per acre per year — to keep over 14,000 …
ECOTRUST pilots direct biodiversity-credit payments to Ugandan landholders who restore a ~2,000 ha wildlife corridor linking the Bugoma and Budongo forest reserves, …
UN-Habitat and Greater Amman Municipality built a $465,000, 2,300 m² nature-based drainage pilot at Ras Al-Ain — bioswales plus an underground storage …
St. Kitts and Nevis funds a government-run trapping programme against an estimated 37,000 invasive African green (vervet) monkeys, backed since 2019 by …
Since 2013, Grenada's Forestry Department and BirdsCaribbean have trapped mongoose, rats and cats at Mt. Hartman and Perseverance to protect the critically …
Hong Kong pairs government-building green roofs with a building-code mandate requiring 20–30% site greenery on large new developments; independent satellite mapping has …
Since 2017, Québec has required developers who destroy wetlands to pay into a provincial compensation fund. Independent legal analysis found the fund …
Barcelona's superblocks restrict through-traffic in 3x3-block clusters for green/pedestrian use. A peer-reviewed ISGlobal model of full rollout (503 superblocks) estimated 667 fewer …
Ethiopia's Green Legacy claims 40bn+ seedlings planted since 2019, incl. a single-day record of 350 million trees. Independent analysts say survival is …
A 2008 aerial brodifacoum campaign removed Norway rats from Rat (Hawadax) Island, Alaska, but early snowfall preserved bait too long, killing an …
A Romanian NGO and a UK project developer are piloting one of the world's first voluntary biodiversity-credit schemes, using a peer-reviewed uplift …
A Forest Investment Program-funded scheme paid Burkinabè households up to $238 per group for surviving trees on degraded gazetted forests; a randomised …
Kyrgyzstan's 2009 Pasture Law devolved rangeland management to elected Pasture User Unions; a $15m World Bank project (2014-2019) reached 190,000+ people in …
Kiribati closed 408,250 km² of ocean to fishing in 2015, financed by a PIPA Trust endowment meant to offset lost licence revenue. …
Bahrain's Supreme Council for Environment protects Tubli Bay's Ramsar-listed mangroves (~48 ha in 2020) and, with UN-Habitat and HSBC, is restoring stands …
The Saudi Green Initiative (2021-) reports 151 million trees planted and 500,000 ha rehabilitated by mid-2025 -- about 1.5% of its 10-billion-tree …
Since 2010, Armenian NGO FPWC has leased land near Khosrov Forest State Reserve to build the 30,300 ha Caucasus Wildlife Refuge for …
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