Topic: PES schemes clear · back to the knowledge map
Most practices in: United States of America (13) · Brazil (8) · Australia (7)
Africa's largest REDD+ project: BioCarbon Partners protects 2.1M ha of Zambian miombo woodland with 30 chiefdoms and 230,000 people. VCS+CCB 4th verification …
West Africa's only REDD+ national park project: 71,070 ha of Upper Guinea rainforest, protecting 19 Mt CO2 and reducing ~500,000 tCO2e/yr. VCS …
USDA programme paying farmers to convert highly erodible cropland to permanent vegetative cover. 24.8 million acres (~10 Mha) enrolled; $1.8 billion in …
Community-led REDD+ project in Ethiopia's afromontane Bale eco-region: 5.5M tCO2e verified under VCS+CCBA Gold, 58% deforestation reduction, 25,000+ ha protected, benefiting 350,000 …
COMACO pays Zambian smallholders above-market prices for conservation-farmed produce in exchange for surrendering snares and firearms; a 2011 PNAS study found significant …
Seattle's ~100,000-acre Cedar River Municipal Watershed programme won EPA's rare 'Limited Alternative to Filtration' status in 2004, saving over $100 million in …
The Nature Conservancy has rewetted 37,000+ acres of pocosin peatland at Pocosin Lakes NWR, NC, and with TerraCarbon built the first ACR-approved …
Melbourne has kept the public and farming out of its mountain-ash forest catchments since 1879, so over 65% of its drinking water …
Brazil's first ecological fiscal transfer (1991) redistributes ~R$500 million/year of state VAT revenue to municipalities hosting protected areas or water springs, spurring …
VCS/CCB-certified REDD+ project covering 660,000 ha in Petén's Maya Biosphere Reserve; 12 community concessions managed by ACOFOP and CONAP project 38 million …
Peru's Law 30215 (2014) mandates water utilities to fund watershed PES via tariffs. SUNASS authorised 43/50 utilities; US$50M+ invested; 8,900+ ha protected; …
Plan Vivo-certified indigenous community project protecting 806 ha of primary rainforest in Choiseul Province; three Babatana tribal clans have verified 108,895 tCO2 …
The Republic of Congo's FCPF ERPA—signed May 2021—commits up to US$41.8 million for verified emission reductions across 12.4 million ha of tropical …
Romania's PNDR Measure 10 pays 125–500 EUR/ha to smallholder farmers maintaining biodiversity-rich HNV meadows. Over 2015–2019, 212,413 beneficiaries received EUR 231.5 M …
Andean water fund restoring 86 km of pre-Inca amunas to recharge Lima's rivers; 15m m³/year water secured, 605,000 t CO2 absorbed, 5,000 …
FONAG, the world's first water fund, was established in 2000 with a 1% surcharge on Quito's water bills, later expanded to include …
Government-led FCPF programme protecting 4.3M ha (2.7M ha forest) around Taï National Park. Delivered 7M tCO₂e verified reductions by 2024; World Bank …
Switzerland's statutory biodiversity payments compensate ~47,000 farms for maintaining over 184,000 ha of Biodiversity Promotion Areas — wildflower meadows, orchards, wetlands and …
Paraguay's largest REDD+ project: 32,000 ha of Gran Chaco dry forest protected under VCS+CCB Gold (Verra). Est. 5.6 Mt CO2e avoided over …
Gabon's 23.6M-ha Congo Basin rainforest (88 % of territory, deforestation <0.08 %/yr since 1990) earns results-based CAFI payments: US$17M received for 2016–2017 …
Guyana's 18M-ha tropical forest (87 % of territory) earns ART TREES-certified carbon revenue: 40.6M verified tCO2e (2016–2021), US$187.5M received. 15 % of …
India's first Plan Vivo-certified community forest carbon project: 27,000 ha of subtropical broadleaf forest in East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. Since 2011: 532,000+ …
Rwanda's national PES mechanism since 2005: 10% of revenues from 4 national parks (~234,000 ha) redistributed to communities. US $1.55 M disbursed …
Ireland's statutory agri-environment PES under the 2023-2027 EU CAP: EUR 150M/yr for 54,000+ farm families managing 1.1M ha for biodiversity, peatland carbon …
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