EU LIFE-funded project mapped carbon stocks across 13,000+ ha of Andalusian Posidonia oceanica meadows and salt marshes (13,085 ktCO2 stored), then created …
Cádiz, Spain
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 27%53/100
A $22.4M Green Climate Fund programme pays for agroforestry and forest rehabilitation across 25,440 ha of Haiti's Trois-Rivieres watershed, targeting 54,252 farmers …
China's central government allocated CNY 20.7 billion (about US$3bn) to 16 pilot 'sponge cities' from 2015-2017; Wuhan alone built 389 water-retention projects …
Wuhan, China
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 27%53/100
A seven-year, ~AUD 24-24.6M Australian/Tasmanian government programme eradicated rabbits, rats and mice from the 12,785 ha Macquarie Island by 2014; vegetation biomass …
Guinea-Bissau's VCS-certified REDD+ project across 181,200 ha of Cacheu and Cantanhez national parks has issued 1.8 million carbon credits and channels 30% …
Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 27%53/100
Since 2008, a one-sol water-tariff surcharge in Moyobamba has funded reforesting 400 ha across three microwatersheds feeding the city's supply, predating Peru's …
Moyobamba, Peru
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 27%53/100
Since 1999, TIST has organised smallholder farmers into self-governing 'small groups' across Kenya, Uganda (incl. Soroti), Tanzania and India. Verra's verified count: …
Cuenca's municipal utility ETAPA has co-managed the ~29,000-hectare Parque Nacional Cajas — source of the rivers that supply the city's drinking water …
Cuenca, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 27%53/100
Since 2019, Rewilding Ukraine has restored wetlands and steppe in the Danube Delta with Endangered Landscapes Programme funding; despite Russia's 2022 invasion, …
Since 1873, Vienna has piped untreated drinking water from two protected Alpine catchments (675 km²), avoiding filtration-plant costs; its forestry department manages …