Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
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 …
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 …
Jordan's largest wastewater plant treats ~70% of the country's sewage and discharges 133 million m³/year of high-quality effluent into the Zarqa River, …
Kazakhstan's World Bank-financed Kok-Aral Dam raised the Northern Aral Sea's water volume 42% to ~27 billion m3 by 2025, revived a fishery …
A World Bank/GEF-backed coastal wetland park in Georgia protects Ramsar-listed wetlands hosting 194 bird species, was inscribed as a 2021 UNESCO World …
Conservation International and Colombian partners' Vida Manglar project protects and restores mangroves across Cispatá Bay, scaling from 7,500 to 11,000 hectares; the …
A six-year, €10m EIP-AGRI results-based scheme paid roughly 450 farmers across Ireland's 'Top 8' freshwater pearl mussel catchments for measured habitat and …
Indonesia's first Plan Vivo-certified project pays 234 households in a West Kalimantan village to protect peat-swamp and riparian forest under a 25-year …
Rwanda's government restored a degraded 121.7-hectare urban wetland in Kigali into an eco-park (2016–2022, Rwf 4.5bn); an independent 2026 survey found bird …
Since 2003, Eskom has partnered with BirdLife South Africa and the Middelpunt Wetland Trust to protect the wetlands feeding its Ingula Pumped-Storage …
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