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)
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 …
China's first water trust fund: TNC, Alibaba Foundation and Wanxiang Trust seeded the Longwu Water Fund with 330,000 CNY in 2015 to …
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 …
Rabobank Acorn / Solidaridad / Lutheran World Relief agroforestry programme with ~1,000 coffee producers in San Martín, Peru; over 10,000 tCO2 removed …
IOC and Tree Aid agroforestry programme across 90 villages in Mali and Senegal targeting 2,120 ha and 200,000 tCO2 via Plan Vivo …
Florida's SFWMD pays ranchers near Lake Okeechobee, under 10-year contracts, per acre-foot of water retained and pound of phosphorus kept from the …
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 …
Since California's first conservation bank in 1995, CDFW has approved 97 banks covering about 73,948 acres (2024), generating 1,406.9 new credits in …
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 …
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 …
Plan Vivo-certified agroforestry programme restoring degraded pasture in Petén, Guatemala since 2019; a genuine, certified effort, but the developer's own reported scale …
Since 2011 the Timorese foundation FCOTI has paid over 1,000 smallholder farmers in Manatuto Municipality to plant and maintain agroforestry trees under …
Since 2006 Beijing has paid farmers upstream in Hebei's Chengde and Zhangjiakou 450-550 yuan/mu/year to convert 103,000 mu of rice paddies to …
Suriname (~93% forest cover) runs a national jurisdictional REDD+ programme (NIMOS/SBB) that generated ~10M tCO2e in UNFCCC-validated results, 2018-2020. A GCF results-based …
Iceland's 'Bændur græða landið' scheme pays farmers fertiliser, seed and cash to revegetate eroded land, run by the state Soil Conservation Service …
Slovenia's KOPOP scheme pays farmers under its 2023-2027 CAP Plan for water, soil and climate practices — EUR 519.6M budgeted, EUR 39M …
A rare independent, peer-reviewed evaluation found Ambatovy's nickel mine near Moramanga is on track to offset the 2,064 ha of rainforest it …
Since 1992 Munich's public utility SWM has paid farmers in the Mangfall Valley catchment to convert to organic farming under 18-year contracts, …
Since 2003, Fundación Natura Bolivia's reciprocal water agreements have paid upstream farmers in-kind (beehives, seedlings, training) to protect cloud forest; by 2023 …
Mexico's first metropolitan water fund — corporate contributions from ARCA Continental, Heineken and CEMEX secure 2,796 ha under PES and ~9,000 ha …
Corporate PES in East Java where PT Tirta Investama (Danone-AQUA Keboncandi) pays 174 upstream farmers USD 100–215/ha/yr across 106.6 ha to maintain …
India's mandatory developer-pays compensatory afforestation scheme (CAF Act 2016); planted 178,261 ha (85% of target) against Rs 38,516 crore (~US$4.6 bn) of …
Lombardy Region (IT) granted €3.5M; 100+ corporate co-funders added €1.5M. Twelve projects: 66,000+ trees, 300+ ha forest improved, 4,635 ha FSC-certified, 1,463 …
Morocco CMD (est. 1999, op. 2002) pays rural pastoral associations via the National Forest Fund to defer grazing from state forests under …
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