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-202 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: United States of America (27) · Australia (17) · United Kingdom (14)
Since 2008, Rio de Janeiro's Guandu river-basin PES program has paid smallholders USD 6.25-31.25/ha/year to conserve or restore riparian forest; a peer-reviewed …
Coca-Cola Foundation and WWF-CEE co-financed the reconnection of 14.5 river km of Drava side-arms in Croatia's Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve (2015-2024), part of …
By protecting 75% of the Quabbin, Ware River and Wachusett watersheds as forested open space and buying about 1,500 acres a year, …
Since 2010, South West Water has paid 2,000+ Devon and Cornwall farmers to cut diffuse pollution across 144,120 ha, investing over £20m …
Since 2013, Mikoko Pamoja has conserved 117 ha of mangrove in Gazi Bay, Kenya, the world's first community mangrove-carbon project. Plan Vivo-certified …
Since 2008, Selangor's Forestry Department and NGO Global Environment Centre have rewetted and replanted Raja Musa Forest Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia's second-largest peat …
IKI-funded governance programme (2022-2027) for the Cuvette Centrale, the world's largest tropical peatland (145,500 km2, ~30.6 Gt carbon, Nature 2017), building cross-sectoral …
Since the late 1990s, Mexican NGO GECI has removed 60 populations of 13 invasive mammal species from 39 Pacific islands, restoring 85% …
GEF-funded campaign by Galápagos National Park and the Charles Darwin Foundation removed 140,000+ feral goats from 500,000+ ha across Pinta, Santiago and …
National voluntary programme where private and communal landowners receive rates exemptions and technical support in exchange for conservation commitments; has secured >1.5 …
Voluntary, state-funded Finnish programme (2020–2030) protecting and restoring mires, wetlands, traditional biotopes and shores; 27,770 ha of mires protected and 20,877 ha …
GEF/IDB project protecting Blue Mountains forests that supply 42% of Kingston's water. Over 500 ha reforested, 5,000+ farmers trained, 8% sedimentation reduction …
World's largest debt-for-nature swap (US$1 billion, October 2024) directs US$200 M over 20 years to protect the Rio Lempa watershed, which supplies …
Parliament-mandated fund (2020) pays landowners to convert drained farmland to forests/wetlands, financed by certified CO₂ credits. By 2022: 24 forests, 230 ha, …
Since 2003, Suntory holds 30–100-year forest management agreements at 27 Japanese sites totalling >12,000 ha, recharging more than twice the groundwater it …
China's first trans-provincial watershed PES: downstream Zhejiang pays upstream Anhui to protect Xin'an River water quality; CNY 2.2 billion exchanged 2012–2020, reducing …
Multi-donor water fund protecting drinking water for 22 million São Paulo residents via PES to 430+ farmers across 11,000 ha in the …
Multi-stakeholder water fund linking EPM, Coca-Cola, Postobon, IDB and TNC to pay upstream farmers for watershed conservation across 23,000 priority hectares, securing …
Brazil's first municipal PES law (Lei 2.100/2005): Extrema, Minas Gerais pays 53+ landowners R$195/ha/yr to restore native forest and adopt conservation practices …
Since 2004, Norway pays private forest owners to permanently protect valuable boreal forest. ~870 areas protected; ~NOK 3.3 billion disbursed; 2024 budget: …
Austria's ÖPUL pays 110,200 farms — 74.6% of all holdings — to adopt voluntary agri-environmental measures on 2.2 million hectares, with €614M/year …
Queensland state fund: AUD $132M+ across 3 rounds for carbon farming with verified co-benefits. By 2024: 315,400+ ha, 1.15M+ ACCUs from 20+ …
Ireland's largest peatland restoration: 33,000 ha across 82 midland bogs, €108M EU-funded. By end 2024: 18,861 ha done (57%). Net 3.3 Mt …
City of Cape Town and TNC fund invasive alien tree clearance since 2018. By Oct 2023: 46,000+ ha cleared across 7 mountain …
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