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)
Civil-society-led water fund (27 partners) paying landowners in the Yaque del Norte basin to conserve and restore watershed forests; backed by Ley …
Trees of Hope paid 2,000+ smallholder farmers in Malawi's Dowa and Neno districts to plant mango, citrus, and hardwood trees under Plan …
Swedish Forest Agency pays private owners for 50-year agreements (Naturvårdsavtal) protecting old-growth forest. End 2025: 35,500 ha NCA, 76,600 ha NCA+BPA; SEK …
Greece's CAP agri-environment scheme paid farmers €164.3m for organic farming on 750,984ha and €12.4m for extensive grazing on 487,267ha in its first …
Cali's municipal environment agency DAGMA pays rural landowners to protect the city's water sources: 238 agreements signed by June 2026 covering 2,500+ …
Since 2011, Catalan NGO Associació Sèlvans has turned donations into 15-25 year logging-rights waivers for forest owners, documenting 42.15 ha preserved for …
In Nov 2024 The Bahamas refinanced $300M of external debt with IDB, Builders Vision and AXA XL guarantees, unlocking $124M over 15 …
Auckland's water utility Watercare is regenerating 2,000+ hectares of native forest in the Hūnua and Waitākere Ranges — source of ~84% of …
Ethiopia's government pays food-insecure rural households in cash or food for public-works labour on soil/water conservation and area-closure regeneration; Phase 5 alone …
Laos's government was paid US$16 million by the World Bank's FCPF Carbon Fund for 3.2M verified tonnes of CO2e avoided across six …
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's provincial government paid community watchers and nursery growers to regenerate 350,000 ha of forest, exceeding its Bonn Challenge pledge — …
England's largest private Biodiversity Net Gain habitat-bank operator; by December 2024 it had 16 habitat banks entered on Natural England's statutory gain-sites …
Since an October 2022 agreement, Smithsonian scientists and Ngäbe-Buglé traditional authorities have paid about 30 Indigenous families $130/ha/year to reforest 100 ha …
Since 2000, Costa Rica's Heredia water utility ESPH has charged customers a dedicated water tariff to fund direct payments to upstream landowners …
German-seeded conservation trust fund financing protected-area staff and operations across Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia; EUR58.7M endowed since 2008 plus a fresh EUR40M …
Since 2004, Indonesia's oldest running watershed PES scheme has paid Cidanau farmer groups (Banten) via intermediary FKDC, funded by industrial buyer PT …
Since 1999, South Korea's Han River Law has charged downstream Seoul-area water users a use fee (KRW80 to KRW170/m3) to compensate 11 …
Namibia's Wildlife Credits pays communal conservancies for verified wildlife outcomes — lodge sightings and camera-trap/satellite confirmation trigger matched national-fund payments. Wuparo's lion-proof …
Bavaria has paid farmers through KULAP and VNP since 1988 to manage land for biodiversity — VNP area grew from 90,000 to …
Peru's 2014 MERESE law lets water utilities reserve tariff revenue for watershed conservation - 45 of 50 utilities have a mechanism, S/132M …
Turkey's forestry ministry, with World Bank/GEF financing, has supported watershed communities since 2004 with saplings, irrigation tech and solar heaters; the first …
Since 2001 South Korea has charged developers a per-square-metre fee for ecosystem damage, funding 277 restoration projects by 2022 — though a …
Since 2013 the Indigenous Serakar Clan has directly held and managed carbon rights over 293 hectares of Espiritu Santo rainforest in Vanuatu, …
Uruguay's government-executed, World Bank/GEF-financed PPR programme (2005-2013) funded 5,300 on-farm matching-grant subprojects covering 880,000 ha, of which 1,308 targeted biodiversity conservation — …
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