Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
The UK's quality-assurance standard for peatland restoration: it issues verified carbon units for rewetting degraded peat, delivering bundled carbon, water and biodiversity …
Belarus has rewetted 89,400 hectares of degraded peatlands since 2007—the largest UNDP-supported peatland restoration programme in Europe—cutting ~3 million tCO₂e over 20 …
Asia's first 'Project Finance for Permanence' secures 1.1 M ha of protected Himalayan forest in Bhutan via a USD 118 M public-private …
Africa's first FSC community forest (2009): MCDI supports 40+ communities managing 410,000+ ha of Tanzanian miombo woodland, with 150,000 ha FSC-certified. REDD+ …
World's largest forest-based avoided-emissions project: 157,875 ha of tropical peatland in Central Kalimantan verified at 7.5M tCO2e/yr under Verra VCS+CCB Gold, protecting …
Since 1995 South Africa has paid the unemployed to clear water-hungry invasive alien plants — 2.5M+ hectares cleared and 300,000+ people employed …
Costa Rica's national PES, created by the 1996 Forest Law, has paid landowners US$565M to conserve 1.15M+ hectares for carbon, water, biodiversity …
Since 2011, companies reward cork-oak landowners in Coruche/Chamusca/Ponte de Sor for FSC-certified good management that protects the Tejo-Sado aquifer and montado biodiversity.
Estonia's 2015–2021 LIFE Mires programme restored natural water conditions on nearly 8,000 hectares of drained peatland by closing 317km of ditches and …
After catastrophic 2010 peat fires blanketed Moscow in smog, the Moscow Province Administration rewetted 73,000 ha of fire-prone peatlands (2010-2013) with Wetlands …
Since 2019, Japan distributes ¥40–62 billion/year to municipalities and prefectures for managing private plantation forests; from April 2024 funded by a ¥1,000/capita …
Since 1997, TNC and partners paid Bolivia to retire logging rights on ~600,000 ha of Amazon/Cerrado forest bordering Noel Kempff Mercado National …
World's largest mangrove restoration: 350,000 ha of Indus Delta, protecting 102,000 ha and restoring 225,000 ha. VCS + CCB certified; 142 Mt …
Four native-title Traditional Owner corporations across 6.8 million ha of the North Kimberley run early dry-season savanna-burning carbon projects that have avoided …
The EU LIFE for MIRES project (2018–2024, €5.85M) rewetted ~2,200 ha of bogs and fens across Czechia's Šumava and Germany's Bavarian Forest …
Since 2009, U Minh Thượng National Park, Vietnam, has had zero forest fires by keeping dry-season water tables above a 50cm threshold, …
Since 1992, Universite Laval and the Canadian peat industry have mandated the Moss Layer Transfer Technique for post-extraction bogs, adopted since in …
EU LIFE-funded programme (2015-2021, EUR 2.8M) rewetted 7,900 ha of degraded Estonian mires — beating its 5,800 ha target — by closing …
Scottish Government grant programme funding voluntary peatland restoration by landowners; 90,000 ha on path to recovery and 14,860 ha restored in 2024–25 …
FMNR of 2,728 ha of degraded Ethiopian hillsides; 7 cooperatives established 2005; Africa's first CDM forestry project (2012); 880,000 tCO2e over 30 …
National programme paying contractors to eliminate invasive wilding conifers from ~180,000 ha/year; wilding conifers remove up to 40% of catchment water. NZD …
World's first commodity-based REDD+ programme: 5.9 M ha of Ghana's High Forest Zone with 140,000+ cocoa farmers in 6 hotspot areas. World …
Argentina's 2007 Native Forest Law mandates 0.3% of the federal budget as direct payments to landowners and communities conserving Category I & …
The world's first national REDD+ programme in the FCPF Carbon Fund (Dec 2016); verified 3.89 M tCO2e for 2019–2020, earning DRC USD …
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