Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
WETLIFE 2 (LIFE13 NAT/LT/000084, 2014–2018, €1.56M) rewetted Lithuania's Amalva and Kamanos raised bogs — blocking ~37 km of drainage ditches at Kamanos …
Angola's Iona National Park has been financed through a €6.2m EU/UNDP project (2013-18) and a $41.3m GEF-7 programme (2021-28) targeting 3.8m hectares …
NSW has removed over 9,000 feral horses from Kosciuszko National Park toward a legal target of 3,000 by 2027; a 2023 RMIT …
A 2006-2011 project reconnected 2.4km of the Kushiro River's original meander in Japan's largest peatland; a 2025 peer-reviewed study found hydrology recovered …
COMACO pays Zambian smallholders above-market prices for conservation-farmed produce in exchange for surrendering snares and firearms; a 2011 PNAS study found significant …
Seattle's ~100,000-acre Cedar River Municipal Watershed programme won EPA's rare 'Limited Alternative to Filtration' status in 2004, saving over $100 million in …
The Nature Conservancy has rewetted 37,000+ acres of pocosin peatland at Pocosin Lakes NWR, NC, and with TerraCarbon built the first ACR-approved …
Melbourne has kept the public and farming out of its mountain-ash forest catchments since 1879, so over 65% of its drinking water …
Indonesia's national Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG, later BRGM) rewetted 1.6 million hectares of degraded peatland across seven provinces between 2016 and 2024 …
Australia's Indigenous Rangers Program funds 40+ ranger groups across northern Australia to control feral pigs, cats and invasive weeds like gamba grass; …
Brazil's first ecological fiscal transfer (1991) redistributes ~R$500 million/year of state VAT revenue to municipalities hosting protected areas or water springs, spurring …
VCS/CCB-certified REDD+ project covering 660,000 ha in Petén's Maya Biosphere Reserve; 12 community concessions managed by ACOFOP and CONAP project 38 million …
VCS-certified mangrove restoration in the Ayeyarwady Delta: 2,065 ha restored since 2015, targeting 3.6 MtCO2e over 20 years (~184,000 tCO2e/yr). WIF with …
Ten island watershed partnerships co-manage 2.6M acres of Hawaiian native forest through fencing and invasive/ungulate removal. ~US$2.5M annual state funding; US$12M leveraged …
Peru's Law 30215 (2014) mandates water utilities to fund watershed PES via tariffs. SUNASS authorised 43/50 utilities; US$50M+ invested; 8,900+ ha protected; …
Plan Vivo-certified indigenous community project protecting 806 ha of primary rainforest in Choiseul Province; three Babatana tribal clans have verified 108,895 tCO2 …
Plan Vivo-certified rangeland carbon project in central Mongolia; 100+ herder households across 70,000 ha practice sustainable rotational grazing, yielding 24,850 tCO2 independently …
The Republic of Congo's FCPF ERPA—signed May 2021—commits up to US$41.8 million for verified emission reductions across 12.4 million ha of tropical …
Romania's PNDR Measure 10 pays 125–500 EUR/ha to smallholder farmers maintaining biodiversity-rich HNV meadows. Over 2015–2019, 212,413 beneficiaries received EUR 231.5 M …
Andean water fund restoring 86 km of pre-Inca amunas to recharge Lima's rivers; 15m m³/year water secured, 605,000 t CO2 absorbed, 5,000 …
FONAG, the world's first water fund, was established in 2000 with a 1% surcharge on Quito's water bills, later expanded to include …
Government-led FCPF programme protecting 4.3M ha (2.7M ha forest) around Taï National Park. Delivered 7M tCO₂e verified reductions by 2024; World Bank …
Switzerland's statutory biodiversity payments compensate ~47,000 farms for maintaining over 184,000 ha of Biodiversity Promotion Areas — wildflower meadows, orchards, wetlands and …
Paraguay's largest REDD+ project: 32,000 ha of Gran Chaco dry forest protected under VCS+CCB Gold (Verra). Est. 5.6 Mt CO2e avoided over …
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