Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
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 …
In 2002 Swiss authorities removed about 1 km of embankments on the Thur River near Niederneunforn, letting the channel widen naturally; peer-reviewed …
A 125 km² Ramsar wetland east of Kolkata where cooperative fisheries treat ~910 million litres of the city's sewage daily, supply about …
Founded in 2012 under the Caribbean Challenge Initiative, the CBF pools donor and government capital into a regional trust; reporting puts its …
Singapore's national tree-planting programme, run by NParks under the Green Plan 2030, had planted over 832,000 of a targeted 1 million additional …
PUB and NParks turned a 2.7 km concrete canal carrying the Kallang River into a 3 km naturalised, meandering river through Bishan–Ang …
A 14-hectare former steel-mill and shipyard on Shanghai's Huangpu River was rebuilt as a 1-mile constructed wetland that biologically treats ~2,400 tonnes …
A decade-long Iran–UNDP programme cutting agricultural water use 25% and raising irrigation efficiency ~42% around Ramsar-listed Lake Urmia; independent monitoring shows recent …
China's first Verra- and CCB Gold-certified blue carbon project restored 380 hectares of mangroves in Zhanjiang (2015–2019), expected to offset 160,000 tonnes …
Scotland's Nature Restoration Fund has put £65 million into nearly 800 projects since 2021, restoring over 15,400 hectares of habitat, planting 300,000+ …
Greece rebuilt Lake Karla -- drained in 1962 for farmland -- into a 38 km2 reservoir storing up to 200 million m3 …
A EUR5m+ EU LIFE and Polish state-funded project is rewetting 6,141.5 ha of Natura 2000 habitat in Kampinos Forest near Warsaw by …
A decade-long UNDP-GEF transboundary programme cut farmer pesticide use by ~30% and irrigation water use by ~60% around Lake Prespa, restoring wetlands …
An EU LIFE project (2004–2007, €809,024) in Slovenia's Ljubljansko barje and Cerkniško wetlands produced a national Corncrake Action Plan and, crucially, a …
Namibia's government and GIZ (BMZ-funded, EUR 4m, 2014-2017) back national bush-thinning to restore rangeland and groundwater recharge on land encroached by invasive …
Since 2003, Andalusia's government has paid shepherds a fixed bonus plus €42–90/ha to graze firebreaks; coverage grew eight-fold from 700 ha (2005) …
Seoul removed a 5.6km elevated highway and daylighted the buried Cheonggyecheon stream, cutting local air pollution 35%, raising species counts 639% (2003–2008), …
Since 2017, Germany and the UK have paid Mato Grosso, Brazil, for independently verified cuts in deforestation emissions via KfW. Phase 1 …
Facing chronic flooding, Malmo's 1997-2002 Augustenborg retrofit added ~10,000 m2 of green roofs and open stormwater channels/ponds across a 1950s estate, cutting …
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