ITC's Kovai paperboard unit became the world's 2nd, and India's 1st, facility to earn AWS Platinum water certification (2019-20), rejuvenating catchment structures …
Coimbatore, India
Good practice★ 40
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Solidaridad / Rabobank Acorn ex-post carbon-payment programme for ~1,200 smallholder coffee farmers in Cauca, Colombia; satellite-verified Plan Vivo certificates paid one farmer …
La Sierra, Colombia
Good practice★ 40
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Rabobank Acorn / Solidaridad / Lutheran World Relief agroforestry programme with ~1,000 coffee producers in San Martín, Peru; over 10,000 tCO2 removed …
Heredia's public utility ESPH has charged customers a watershed fee (US$0.01-0.03/m3) since 2000 to pay upstream landowners ~US$120/ha/year, reaching ~1,900 ha under …
WWF and CARE brokered payments from Lake Naivasha's flower-export farms to c.785 upstream smallholders (of 5,000) who terrace and reforest the Aberdare …
Naivasha, Kenya
Good practice★ 40
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Manila's Maynilad utility has reforested about 2,420 ha of the Ipo-Angat watershed since 2007 (1.64M+ trees), with government forestry regulator DENR independently …
Manila, Philippines
Good practice★ 40
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Plan Vivo-certified agroforestry programme restoring degraded pasture in Petén, Guatemala since 2019; a genuine, certified effort, but the developer's own reported scale …
Flores, Guatemala
Good practice★ 40
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Since 2011 the Timorese foundation FCOTI has paid over 1,000 smallholder farmers in Manatuto Municipality to plant and maintain agroforestry trees under …