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Rwanda's national PES mechanism since 2005: 10% of revenues from 4 national parks (~234,000 ha) redistributed to communities. US $1.55 M disbursed …
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 …
26 First Nations protect 7M ha of old-growth temperate rainforest on BC's north and central coast, generating 1M+ tCO2e/yr under BC FCOP …
Chile's statutory national PES (Ley 20.283, 2008): CONAF pays landowners to conserve, recover and manage native forest. In 2024, 456 bonifications covered …
Guatemala's 28-year statutory forest PES: PINFOR (1996-2016) and PROBOSQUE (2015-present). ~USD 260 M paid, 38,000+ contracts, ~600,000 ha enrolled across plantations, agroforestry, …
REDD+ project protecting 182,000 ha of Amazonian forest in San Martín, Peru. Between 2008–2020: 59% deforestation decline, 8.4M tCO2e prevented, 1,300+ conservation …
Asia's first national PFES law (Decree 99/2010) requires hydropower, water-supply and eco-tourism companies to pay into Vietnam's Forest Fund; 355,000 households manage …
Brazil's oldest community PES: since 2007, the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation pays 583 riverine communities (BRL 50/household/month + community fund) to conserve 10.9 …
Ecuador's national PES since 2008 pays landowners and indigenous communities US$30–60/ha/yr to conserve 1.6M+ ha of native forest and páramo, cutting annual …
Mexico's national government PES scheme (CONAFOR) compensates forest owners ~USD 24/ha/yr to conserve 4.27 million ha of priority watersheds; 78% of payments …
The world's largest PES: since 1999 China has paid 30M+ rural households to convert ~29.8M hectares of sloping cropland to forest to …
Rather than build an $8–10bn filtration plant, New York City invests in protecting its Catskill/Delaware watershed — ~$2.5bn since 1997 — keeping …
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