Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
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 …
World's largest PES programme: China's Grain for Green converted 34.3M ha of sloped farmland to forest and grassland since 1999, paying 535 …
Malaysia's first certified nature-based carbon project: 83,381 ha of Bornean dipterocarp rainforest in Sabah, verified under Verra VCS+CCB. First VCUs issued March …
Spain's CAP Strategic Plan (PEPAC 2023-2027) pays farmers in dehesa and agroforestry systems—~3.5 million ha of Extremadura, Andalusia and Castilla y León—for …
World's oldest operational carbon market project (1994), led by indigenous and mestizo farming communities in Chiapas under Plan Vivo. Covers 9,150 ha …
Community-led mangrove restoration in Casamance and Sine-Saloum: 10,000 ha, 80 million trees planted by 2012, Verra-certified; 600,000 tCO2e over 20 years; 350 …
WCS-managed REDD+ project protecting 372,470 ha of primary rainforest and 73 community forests in NE Madagascar. VCS + CCB Gold certified; 1.2 …
World's first VCS Triple Gold CCB REDD+ project: 13 community forestry groups protect 67,783 ha in Oddar Meanchey. Expected to reduce 7.1 …
Africa's largest REDD+ project: BioCarbon Partners protects 2.1M ha of Zambian miombo woodland with 30 chiefdoms and 230,000 people. VCS+CCB 4th verification …
West Africa's only REDD+ national park project: 71,070 ha of Upper Guinea rainforest, protecting 19 Mt CO2 and reducing ~500,000 tCO2e/yr. VCS …
USDA programme paying farmers to convert highly erodible cropland to permanent vegetative cover. 24.8 million acres (~10 Mha) enrolled; $1.8 billion in …
Community-led REDD+ project in Ethiopia's afromontane Bale eco-region: 5.5M tCO2e verified under VCS+CCBA Gold, 58% deforestation reduction, 25,000+ ha protected, benefiting 350,000 …
A decade-plus monitored NFM experiment across 24 farms: 300,000+ native trees, ~40 leaky ponds and ~136 flow restrictors; reported ~30% lower upper-catchment …
Guinee Ecologie and partners restored more than 1,400 hectares of mangrove across Guinea's Tristao Islands Ramsar site (2019-2022), against roughly 7,000 hectares …
World Bank-financed terracing, afforestation and grazing bans across 1.56M ha of China's Loess Plateau (1994-2002) cut Yellow River sediment by 57Mt/year and …
France's 2021–2024 national PES pilot paid nearly 3,500 farmers across 130 territories for water-quality, soil and biodiversity outcomes, contracting up to roughly …
Yokohama's municipally managed eelgrass beds became the first site in Japan's J Blue Credit market, turning coastal seagrass restoration into tradable carbon …
Since 2019, the Yunesit'in and Xeni Gwet'in First Nations have revived spring and fall cultural burning across Tsilhqot'in Territory, British Columbia, training …
REMA restored 121.7 ha of degraded urban wetland in Kigali into the Nyandungu Eco-Park (2016–2020), replanting 17,000 native trees across 55 species. …
Since 2007, Iceland's Hekluskógar project has enlisted 210+ landowners to re-establish native birch woodland around the Hekla volcano, planting 2.3M+ seedlings by …
A 50/50 USACE-SFWMD project backfilled 22 miles of the C-38 flood-control canal and re-carved 44 miles of the Kissimmee River's original meanders, …
Denmark re-meandered the channelised Skjern River from 19 to 26 km across 875 ha of rewetted floodplain (2001-2004), an EU LIFE-funded scheme …
Created in 2012 by Benin's government, IUCN and international donors, FSOA finances ranger patrols and community programmes across the W-Arly-Pendjari savanna complex …
Since 1982, Durban's eThekwini Municipality has protected a statutory open-space network now covering roughly 940 km2 of the city; a 2017 World …
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