Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
Gabon's 23.6M-ha Congo Basin rainforest (88 % of territory, deforestation <0.08 %/yr since 1990) earns results-based CAFI payments: US$17M received for 2016–2017 …
Guyana's 18M-ha tropical forest (87 % of territory) earns ART TREES-certified carbon revenue: 40.6M verified tCO2e (2016–2021), US$187.5M received. 15 % of …
India's first Plan Vivo-certified community forest carbon project: 27,000 ha of subtropical broadleaf forest in East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. Since 2011: 532,000+ …
Rwanda's national PES mechanism since 2005: 10% of revenues from 4 national parks (~234,000 ha) redistributed to communities. US $1.55 M disbursed …
Ireland's statutory agri-environment PES under the 2023-2027 EU CAP: EUR 150M/yr for 54,000+ farm families managing 1.1M ha for biodiversity, peatland carbon …
26 First Nations protect 7M ha of old-growth temperate rainforest on BC's north and central coast, generating 1M+ tCO2e/yr under BC FCOP …
Chile's statutory national PES (Ley 20.283, 2008): CONAF pays landowners to conserve, recover and manage native forest. In 2024, 456 bonifications covered …
Guatemala's 28-year statutory forest PES: PINFOR (1996-2016) and PROBOSQUE (2015-present). ~USD 260 M paid, 38,000+ contracts, ~600,000 ha enrolled across plantations, agroforestry, …
REDD+ project protecting 182,000 ha of Amazonian forest in San Martín, Peru. Between 2008–2020: 59% deforestation decline, 8.4M tCO2e prevented, 1,300+ conservation …
Asia's first national PFES law (Decree 99/2010) requires hydropower, water-supply and eco-tourism companies to pay into Vietnam's Forest Fund; 355,000 households manage …
Brazil's oldest community PES: since 2007, the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation pays 583 riverine communities (BRL 50/household/month + community fund) to conserve 10.9 …
Ecuador's national PES since 2008 pays landowners and indigenous communities US$30–60/ha/yr to conserve 1.6M+ ha of native forest and páramo, cutting annual …
Mexico's national government PES scheme (CONAFOR) compensates forest owners ~USD 24/ha/yr to conserve 4.27 million ha of priority watersheds; 78% of payments …
The world's largest PES: since 1999 China has paid 30M+ rural households to convert ~29.8M hectares of sloping cropland to forest to …
Rather than build an $8–10bn filtration plant, New York City invests in protecting its Catskill/Delaware watershed — ~$2.5bn since 1997 — keeping …
To keep nitrates out of its mineral-water aquifer, Vittel (Nestlé Waters) pays catchment farmers via the Agrivair intermediary to adopt low-input agriculture …
Toronto's 2009 bylaw made green roofs mandatory on new mid-to-large buildings, delivering 1,200+ green roofs and 450,000+ m² of coverage, linked to …
Oslo requires new developments to hit a minimum 'Blue-Green Factor' score for stormwater, vegetation, biodiversity and recreation; a peer-reviewed study found wadi-based …
Liechtenstein pays farmers under its Compensation Act to manage 'ecologically valuable' habitat -- meadows, hedges, wildflower strips -- that grew from 13.5% …
Pallikaranai Marsh, a 1,247-hectare Ramsar wetland (designated 2022) in Chennai, buffers monsoon floods for the city's south and hosts 120+ bird species, …
Indonesia's Landsat-based national forest-carbon MRV system verified emission cuts that triggered two results-based payments: $56m from Norway (11.23 Mt CO2e, 2017) and …
Piloted in 2001, Victoria's BushTender let private landholders competitively bid to manage native vegetation for public payment — a reverse-auction PES mechanism …
Since 2020, UNDP and Uzbekistan's forestry service have planted 823,000 saxaul trees over 658 hectares of the dried Aral Sea bed near …
After the July 2023 Rhodes wildfires, the EU's Copernicus Emergency Management Service mapped burn severity across ~17,600 ha within days, data that …
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