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Largest statutory wetland offset market: 1,800+ mitigation banks in RIBITS (2013), restoring aquatic habitats across the US under CWA Section 404. Banking …
Korea Forest Service's statutory carbon scheme, linked to the national ETS since 2013, lets forest landowners earn verified credits through six methodologies …
Mae Fah Luang Foundation certifies 23,526 ha of community forest across 120 Thai communities in 10 provinces under T-VER, targeting 43,628 tCO2e/yr. …
Japan's tripartite government carbon credit scheme for forest management (METI, MOE, MAFF): 356 forestry projects registered by March 2024. Japan's forests removed …
One of the world's first forest carbon projects (1994): TNC and Programme for Belize conserve 102,790 ha of tropical forest in northwest …
NT2 Power Company pays US$1.3M/year to WMPA to protect the 3,710 km² Nakai–Nam Theun National Protected Area—Laos' largest NPA—for 25 years (2010–2035), …
World's first FCPF emission-reduction payment (Oct 2021): US $6.4 M for 1.28 M tCO2e in Zambézia Province. Programme covers 5.3 M ha …
New Zealand's ETS has included post-1989 forests since 2008; ~349,000 ha registered (2021) earn NZUs for carbon sequestration. In 2024, 11.5 M …
Panama Canal Authority pays landowners flat annual fees to restore forest in the 342,000-ha Canal watershed: 10,846 ha reforested (3,650 ha agroforestry, …
World's first peatland-rewetting carbon standard, launched 2011 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. MoorFutures certificates (EUR 30-123/tCO2e) fund bog rewetting across four German states; over 50,000 …
Finland's voluntary PES programme paying private landowners to conserve biodiversity-rich forests in Southern Finland. Over 96,000 ha permanently or durably protected; €46M …
Colombia's national voluntary PES marketplace: private companies and public entities compensate their ecological footprint by paying >13,000 rural and indigenous families to …
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