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 …
Sheikhupura, Pakistan
Good practice★ 40
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
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 …
Hohhot, China
Good practice★ 40
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
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 …
Tainan, Taiwan
Good practice★ 40
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
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 …
Żywiec, Poland
Good practice★ 40
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
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 …
Coimbatore, India
Good practice★ 40
Evidence: Observational / pre–post