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-26 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: United States of America (13) · Australia (8) · United Kingdom (7)
The UK's quality-assurance standard for peatland restoration: it issues verified carbon units for rewetting degraded peat, delivering bundled carbon, water and biodiversity …
Founded in 1977 by Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, the Green Belt Movement mobilised rural Kenyan women to plant 51 million trees across …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A 20-year Plan Vivo agroforestry-carbon scheme run by ECOTRUST: 50,000+ smallholders, 34,000 ha, ~7.5 MtCO2, US$8.7M in performance-based payments, with most revenue …
In Peru's Madre de Dios region, women now hold 30% of formalized mining concessions — the country's highest share — with women-led …
DOC manages the 10,201 ha Kopuatai Peat Dome, New Zealand's largest unmodified restiad bog and a Ramsar site since 1989, whose peat …
United Utilities' £22.2M Sustainable Catchment Management Programme (2005-2015) paid tenant farmers across 57,000 hectares of Peak District and Forest of Bowland moorland …
EU LIFE programme (2014-2021) that rehabilitated 55 peatlands across 14 Natura 2000 sites in the French Jura, neutralising 26 km of drains …
Plan Vivo- and Gold Standard-certified dryland restoration in Tigray, Ethiopia: landless and smallholder farmers have restored 30,000+ ha since 2016, sequestering a …
After 1996 and 2002 wildfires choked Denver's reservoirs with sediment, Denver Water and the US Forest Service treated 120,000+ acres of watershed …
The EU-funded LIFE Peat Restore project rewetted about 1,350 ha of degraded fen in Poland (part of 5,300 ha across five countries) …
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