Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
A World Bank-backed project (2008-2020) set out to reforest up to 1,500 ha of Trinidad's Ramsar-listed Nariva Swamp for carbon and livelihoods, …
Cyprus's 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme put 36,742 hectares under agri-environment-climate contracts and paid farmers across its 63-site, 1,789km2 Natura 2000 network, backed …
California's CARB cap-and-trade offset market has credited ~74 improved-forest-management projects with 130M+ carbon credits since 2013 — but peer-reviewed research found ~29% …
Since Chile's CONAF eradicated rabbits from Santa Clara islet in 2002-03, shearwater pairs there rose ~40% in three years — yet the …
Sri Lanka's first PES pilot (2019-22): hydropower firm Vidullanka (60%) and IUCN Sri Lanka (40%) spent ~LKR 6.1M restoring riparian buffers and …
Created by Brazil's 2012 Forest Code but only operationalised in October 2025, the CRA lets landowners with surplus native vegetation sell tradable …
Victoria's BushBroker native-vegetation offset scheme (386 sites, 19,000+ ha, since 2006) was independently audited and peer-reviewed in 2024: both found little evidence …
Canaima National Park protects the Caroní headwaters feeding Venezuela's Guri dam (near half its power), but FAO, CSIS and Mongabay document ~22,000 …
Peer-reviewed satellite analysis of 182 Human-Induced Regeneration carbon-credit projects (~30% of Australia's carbon credits, ~AUD 300m) found canopy-cover gains matching untreated land, …
Kosovo's capital protected the roughly 1,126-hectare Gërmia forest as a Regional Nature Park in 1987; a 2021 contingent-valuation survey of visitors found …
Ethiopia's PM office greened stretches of Addis Ababa's Akaki and Sheger riverbanks, planting a 50-hectare Entoto-area park in Phase 1 (2019-20, ~2.5bn …
Kenya's Northern Rangelands Trust certified soil-carbon credits across 1.9M hectares of rangeland; when validators found grazing records didn't match satellite vegetation data, …
Dhaka North City Corporation offers a 10% property-tax rebate for households maintaining rooftop gardens, and surveys count over 30,000 rooftop gardens across …
Seoul tracked urban forest inside residential “living spheres” rising 6.53% (per-capita +11.59%) from 2021-2024; Korea's forest science institute separately valued the resulting …
Indonesian law has required Jakarta to keep 30% of its area as green open space since 2007. Nearly two decades on, official …
Since 1998, Drexel University and Equatorial Guinea's national university have monitored primates and nesting leatherback turtles on Bioko Island. Satellite tracking (2023) …
Kenya's Mombasa–Nairobi railway crosses unfenced Tsavo on an embankment with 141 crossing structures; a 2022 peer-reviewed study found real but uneven wildlife …
Mexico City turned over 1,000 elevated-highway pillars into vertical gardens using closed-loop rainwater irrigation, but its founder and the city itself now …
After the 2020 earthquake, Zagreb used rebuild funds to heat-map city blocks with the University of Zagreb, plant 1,500 trees (mostly at …
Uzbekistan's 2021 pledge to plant 1 billion trees, with 4,450 new hectares for Tashkent, delivered real volume, but a state audit found …
Kiribati and Conservation International built a trust fund to pay the government a 'reverse fishing licence' fee to forgo tuna revenue in …
One of the world's largest community REDD+ projects, run by four Zimbabwean Rural District Councils across ~1.3 million hectares of the Zambezi …
TotalEnergies pledges "positive net impact" on biodiversity near Uganda's Murchison Falls Park via Tilenga and the EACOP pipeline, targeting 80% footprint restoration …
Two decades of cat sterilisation on Brazil's Fernando de Noronha archipelago have not curbed the feral population, estimated at 1,287 animals in …
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