Topic: Nature-based solutions & ecosystem services clear · back to the knowledge map
-45 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: United States of America (14) · Australia (9) · Brazil (9)
Since February 2024, most development in England must deliver a measurable 10% biodiversity net gain in standardised biodiversity units — a statutory …
Since 1964, KKL-JNF's ~3,000-hectare pine plantation in Israel's northern Negev has become one of the world's longest-running semi-arid forest carbon-flux studies, but …
Independently audited by SGS, Sanpellegrino's Ruspino bottling plant achieved AWS Core Certification in 2020 for its stewardship of the San Pellegrino, Limpia …
Abu Dhabi's environment agency has planted tens of millions of mangroves since 2015, expanding cover to roughly 17,600 ha; EAD reports the …
Brazil's pioneering Water Producer scheme, piloted 2008–2015 in São Paulo's Cantareira system, signed 41 PES contracts covering 342 hectares of forest restoration …
Since 2022, Nhaumue and Mangunde communities in Chibabava District have restored native Miombo woodland under Kukumuty, the first project certified under Plan …
Since 2008, the Rowallan Alton Māori Incorporation has kept 738 ha of temperate rainforest near Fiordland National Park standing, financed by Plan …
San Francisco's water utility keeps about 85% of the city's supply flowing from the pristine Hetch Hetchy Reservoir without filtration — a …
A 10-year, NZ$20 million partnership (2013-2023) between dairy co-operative Fonterra and New Zealand's Department of Conservation enhanced 5,213 ha across 5 priority …
Since 2020, the Vanga Blue Forest community organisation has protected 460 ha of mangroves at Vanga Bay on the Kenya–Tanzania border under …
Vietnam earned US$51.5M from the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility for 10.3 million tonnes of verified forest-based emission reductions (2018-2019) across …
Smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka's Galle District earn staged Plan Vivo Certificates for reforesting traditional home gardens with analog forestry, rebuilding a …
KKI Warsi's Plan Vivo-certified village forest project protects 5,000+ ha of primary rainforest in Jambi with 5 communities; a verified 2018 sale …
For over 120 years Tokyo's Bureau of Waterworks has owned and managed ~25,000 hectares of 'water conservation forest' along the upper Tama …
Pau Costa Foundation pays Girona-province shepherds EUR140/ha in strategic zones and EUR70/ha elsewhere to graze livestock as wildfire fuel-break management; peer-reviewed 5-year …
Luxembourg pays private forest owners €150 to €37.50 per hectare a year, via a 10-year statutory commitment, to manage woodland for ecosystem …
Since 1986 Minnesota has paid landowners a one-time fee for easements retiring marginal cropland, wetlands and prairie. State agency BWSR reports over …
Guatemala's first legally established water fund (2017) pools Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and public funding to restore forest in the Xayá-Pixcaya watershed feeding Guatemala …
Denmark's June 2024 Green Tripartite Agreement commits a ~DKK 40bn (EUR 5.4bn) Green Land Fund to voluntarily rewet 140,000 ha of drained …
Colombia's Decreto-Ley 870/2017 created a national legal framework paying landowners to conserve páramos, forests and wetlands; by 2024 government figures reported ~743,000 …
Under a September 2023 decree enabling voluntary ecological compensation, Finland recorded one of its first private biodiversity-credit deals in March 2026: retailer …
Slovakia's 2023-2027 CAP Strategic Plan pays farmers via the Agri-Environment-Climate Measure (AEKO) and a companion eco-scheme for grassland, organic and biodiversity commitments …
Under Alberta's 2013 Wetland Policy, developers who cannot avoid draining a wetland can pay an in-lieu fee funding replacement elsewhere; since 2020 …
Thailand's national coastal mangrove carbon scheme (T-VER, March 2023): 98 communities enrolled protecting 34,456 ha under 30-year agreements paying US$78/ha year 1 …
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