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 …
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 14%60/100
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 …
Bucharest, Romania
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 14%60/100
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 …
Bern, Switzerland
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 14%60/100
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+ …
Shillong, India
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 14%60/100
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 …
Dublin, Ireland
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 14%60/100
Chile's statutory national PES (Ley 20.283, 2008): CONAF pays landowners to conserve, recover and manage native forest. In 2024, 456 bonifications covered …
Santiago, Chile
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 14%60/100
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 …
Hanoi, Vietnam
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 14%60/100
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 …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 14%60/100
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 …
Guadalajara, Mexico
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 14%60/100
To keep nitrates out of its mineral-water aquifer, Vittel (Nestlé Waters) pays catchment farmers via the Agrivair intermediary to adopt low-input agriculture …