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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 EU LIFE-funded PeatCarbon project (2022–2027) rewets 5,414 hectares of drained peatlands in Latvia and Finland, developing a verified Baltic carbon-credit methodology …
Blue Ventures and Velondriake communities protect 1,200+ hectares of mangroves in southwest Madagascar under Plan Vivo + CCB Gold—the world's first validated …
Plan Vivo-certified community carbon project in La Mosquitia—Honduras's last large primeval forest. Miskito fire brigades protect 1,600+ ha of pine savanna; ~400 …
Plan Vivo–certified community reforestation with 4,000+ smallholder families across 17,000+ ha in Estelí highlands. All 2015–2021 credits independently verified; US$3.1M paid to …
World's largest PES programme: China's Grain for Green converted 34.3M ha of sloped farmland to forest and grassland since 1999, paying 535 …
Spain's CAP Strategic Plan (PEPAC 2023-2027) pays farmers in dehesa and agroforestry systems—~3.5 million ha of Extremadura, Andalusia and Castilla y León—for …
World's oldest operational carbon market project (1994), led by indigenous and mestizo farming communities in Chiapas under Plan Vivo. Covers 9,150 ha …
Community-led mangrove restoration in Casamance and Sine-Saloum: 10,000 ha, 80 million trees planted by 2012, Verra-certified; 600,000 tCO2e over 20 years; 350 …
USDA programme paying farmers to convert highly erodible cropland to permanent vegetative cover. 24.8 million acres (~10 Mha) enrolled; $1.8 billion in …
NSW has removed over 9,000 feral horses from Kosciuszko National Park toward a legal target of 3,000 by 2027; a 2023 RMIT …
A 2006-2011 project reconnected 2.4km of the Kushiro River's original meander in Japan's largest peatland; a 2025 peer-reviewed study found hydrology recovered …
COMACO pays Zambian smallholders above-market prices for conservation-farmed produce in exchange for surrendering snares and firearms; a 2011 PNAS study found significant …
The Nature Conservancy has rewetted 37,000+ acres of pocosin peatland at Pocosin Lakes NWR, NC, and with TerraCarbon built the first ACR-approved …
Indonesia's national Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG, later BRGM) rewetted 1.6 million hectares of degraded peatland across seven provinces between 2016 and 2024 …
Australia's Indigenous Rangers Program funds 40+ ranger groups across northern Australia to control feral pigs, cats and invasive weeds like gamba grass; …
VCS-certified mangrove restoration in the Ayeyarwady Delta: 2,065 ha restored since 2015, targeting 3.6 MtCO2e over 20 years (~184,000 tCO2e/yr). WIF with …
Ten island watershed partnerships co-manage 2.6M acres of Hawaiian native forest through fencing and invasive/ungulate removal. ~US$2.5M annual state funding; US$12M leveraged …
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 …
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 …
Andean water fund restoring 86 km of pre-Inca amunas to recharge Lima's rivers; 15m m³/year water secured, 605,000 t CO2 absorbed, 5,000 …
Switzerland's statutory biodiversity payments compensate ~47,000 farms for maintaining over 184,000 ha of Biodiversity Promotion Areas — wildflower meadows, orchards, wetlands and …
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 …
The world's largest PES: since 1999 China has paid 30M+ rural households to convert ~29.8M hectares of sloping cropland to forest to …
To keep nitrates out of its mineral-water aquifer, Vittel (Nestlé Waters) pays catchment farmers via the Agrivair intermediary to adopt low-input agriculture …
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