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)
Plan Vivo-certified (PV_2011_006) community reforestation in Bolivia's Cochabamba Tropics. Smallholder farmers plant native mahogany, cedar, and 12 other species on deforested land; …
Germany's Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG) has required biodiversity offsetting since 1976. Eco-Accounts allow landowners to pre-register habitat improvements as tradable credits …
TNC's 2016 debt-for-nature swap ($21.6 M) and a 2018 World Bank blue bond ($15 M) funded SeyCCAT, expanding Seychelles marine protected areas …
Danone's Évian brand finances PES for 41 farmers across a 35 km² alpine catchment (Plateau de Gavot, Haute-Savoie) to protect mineral water …
Africa's longest-running community wildlife PES: Zimbabwe Rural District Councils market wildlife access to safari operators, distributing revenues to 50+ communal areas across …
Netherlands peatland carbon standard: farmers raise groundwater in drained peat meadows earning SNK-verified credits at €75–115/tCO₂e. Peat subsidence is ~2.8% of Dutch …
Africa’s first water fund (2015): TNC and partners pay 50,000+ Upper Tana farmers to protect Nairobi’s water supply for 9M people. USD …
Pacific islands' first indigenous-owned Plan Vivo carbon project: Drawa communities conserve 4,120 ha of tropical rainforest on Vanua Levu, generating 18,800 tCO₂e/year. …
Europe's first supply-side biodiversity compensation site: CDC Biodiversité restored 357 ha of orchards to rare Crau steppic grassland (€12.5M; 2008–10). Great bustard …
Largest biodiversity credit market in Australia: 381 stewardship agreements covering 109,911 ha under NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. A$467M Stewardship Payments Fund …
Queensland farmers earn Reef Credits — each equal to 1 kg of nitrogen prevented from reaching the Great Barrier Reef — in …
86 communal conservancies covering 16.6M ha (about 20% of Namibia) pay 230,000+ rural members to manage wildlife and natural resources. Elephant populations …
Nepal's jurisdictional REDD+ programme covering 1.7M ha of the Terai Arc Landscape: 2.4M tCO2e reduced 2018–2024, US$9.4M World Bank FCPF payment (2025). …
Nepal's first REDD+ pilot paid 112 community forest user groups across three watersheds (Dolakha, Chitwan, Gorkha) via new Forest Carbon Trust Funds …
Heineken Ethiopia's BURQA initiative, with World Vision Ethiopia and Acacia Water, restores the Dabena and Hakim Gara catchments; an independent 2024 baseline …
In 2017 Nestlé's Sheikhupura plant became the first site worldwide AWS-certified; drip-irrigation subsidies with Punjab cut farm water use by 377,500+ m3/yr …
Since 2007 Pennsylvania's REAP tax-credit program has paid farmers 50-90% of BMP costs, awarding over $155M in credits across 8,500+ projects on …
Under the Nature Repair Act 2023, Australia's Clean Energy Regulator runs the world's first legislated national voluntary biodiversity market. Its first project …
Since 2011, China's Grassland Ecological Compensation Policy has paid herders 37.5-112.5 yuan/ha to reduce grazing, investing over 150 billion yuan across 13 …
Palau's statutory $100 Pristine Paradise Environmental Fee, paid by every visitor since 2018, has raised over $13m (2012-2019) and about $7m in …
Under a Forestry Commission MoU, Newmont's Akyem gold mine is revegetating three times the 101 ha of forest it impacted — 317 …
A 26-organisation public-private water fund — utility Aguas Andinas, miner Anglo American, Nestlé and The Nature Conservancy — pooling resources to protect …
Since 1998, Taiwan's Forestry Bureau and Tainan City have paid Guantian farmers to farm pesticide-free for the endangered pheasant-tailed jacana; nests grew …
Since 2008, Danone-owned Żywiec Zdrój's 'Po stronie natury' programme has planted over 8 million trees across roughly 1,000 hectares and restored around …
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