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-45 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: United States of America (14) · Australia (9) · Brazil (9)
The UK's quality-assurance standard for peatland restoration: it issues verified carbon units for rewetting degraded peat, delivering bundled carbon, water and biodiversity …
Asia's first 'Project Finance for Permanence' secures 1.1 M ha of protected Himalayan forest in Bhutan via a USD 118 M public-private …
Africa's first FSC community forest (2009): MCDI supports 40+ communities managing 410,000+ ha of Tanzanian miombo woodland, with 150,000 ha FSC-certified. REDD+ …
World's largest forest-based avoided-emissions project: 157,875 ha of tropical peatland in Central Kalimantan verified at 7.5M tCO2e/yr under Verra VCS+CCB Gold, protecting …
Costa Rica's national PES, created by the 1996 Forest Law, has paid landowners US$565M to conserve 1.15M+ hectares for carbon, water, biodiversity …
Since 2011, companies reward cork-oak landowners in Coruche/Chamusca/Ponte de Sor for FSC-certified good management that protects the Tejo-Sado aquifer and montado biodiversity.
Since 2019, Japan distributes ¥40–62 billion/year to municipalities and prefectures for managing private plantation forests; from April 2024 funded by a ¥1,000/capita …
Since 1997, TNC and partners paid Bolivia to retire logging rights on ~600,000 ha of Amazon/Cerrado forest bordering Noel Kempff Mercado National …
World's largest mangrove restoration: 350,000 ha of Indus Delta, protecting 102,000 ha and restoring 225,000 ha. VCS + CCB certified; 142 Mt …
FMNR of 2,728 ha of degraded Ethiopian hillsides; 7 cooperatives established 2005; Africa's first CDM forestry project (2012); 880,000 tCO2e over 30 …
World's first commodity-based REDD+ programme: 5.9 M ha of Ghana's High Forest Zone with 140,000+ cocoa farmers in 6 hotspot areas. World …
Argentina's 2007 Native Forest Law mandates 0.3% of the federal budget as direct payments to landowners and communities conserving Category I & …
The world's first national REDD+ programme in the FCPF Carbon Fund (Dec 2016); verified 3.89 M tCO2e for 2019–2020, earning DRC USD …
Kenya's first REDD+ project: Wildlife Works protects 200,000 ha of dry Acacia-Commiphora forest between Tsavo East and West National Parks, with 13.9 …
Aboriginal-owned carbon project in western Arnhem Land: Traditional Owners apply strategic early dry-season burning over 28,000 km2 to reduce late-season wildfires, earning …
A 20-year Plan Vivo agroforestry-carbon scheme run by ECOTRUST: 50,000+ smallholders, 34,000 ha, ~7.5 MtCO2, US$8.7M in performance-based payments, with most revenue …
The UK's government-backed standard for woodland-creation carbon: validated projects are predicted to sequester ~13 MtCO2 over their lifetime, with a public registry …
United Utilities' £22.2M Sustainable Catchment Management Programme (2005-2015) paid tenant farmers across 57,000 hectares of Peak District and Forest of Bowland moorland …
Plan Vivo- and Gold Standard-certified dryland restoration in Tigray, Ethiopia: landless and smallholder farmers have restored 30,000+ ha since 2016, sequestering a …
After 1996 and 2002 wildfires choked Denver's reservoirs with sediment, Denver Water and the US Forest Service treated 120,000+ acres of watershed …
The EU LIFE-funded PeatCarbon project (2022–2027) rewets 5,414 hectares of drained peatlands in Latvia and Finland, developing a verified Baltic carbon-credit methodology …
Blue Ventures and Velondriake communities protect 1,200+ hectares of mangroves in southwest Madagascar under Plan Vivo + CCB Gold—the world's first validated …
Plan Vivo-certified community carbon project in La Mosquitia—Honduras's last large primeval forest. Miskito fire brigades protect 1,600+ ha of pine savanna; ~400 …
World's first jurisdictional REDD+ system (Acre State Law 2.308/2010), covering 15.4 M ha of Amazon forest; Standard Chartered-CDSA partnership to sell up …
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