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Most practices in: United States of America (13) · Brazil (8) · Australia (7)
26 First Nations protect 7M ha of old-growth temperate rainforest on BC's north and central coast, generating 1M+ tCO2e/yr under BC FCOP …
Chile's statutory national PES (Ley 20.283, 2008): CONAF pays landowners to conserve, recover and manage native forest. In 2024, 456 bonifications covered …
Guatemala's 28-year statutory forest PES: PINFOR (1996-2016) and PROBOSQUE (2015-present). ~USD 260 M paid, 38,000+ contracts, ~600,000 ha enrolled across plantations, agroforestry, …
REDD+ project protecting 182,000 ha of Amazonian forest in San Martín, Peru. Between 2008–2020: 59% deforestation decline, 8.4M tCO2e prevented, 1,300+ conservation …
Asia's first national PFES law (Decree 99/2010) requires hydropower, water-supply and eco-tourism companies to pay into Vietnam's Forest Fund; 355,000 households manage …
Brazil's oldest community PES: since 2007, the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation pays 583 riverine communities (BRL 50/household/month + community fund) to conserve 10.9 …
Ecuador's national PES since 2008 pays landowners and indigenous communities US$30–60/ha/yr to conserve 1.6M+ ha of native forest and páramo, cutting annual …
Mexico's national government PES scheme (CONAFOR) compensates forest owners ~USD 24/ha/yr to conserve 4.27 million ha of priority watersheds; 78% of payments …
The world's largest PES: since 1999 China has paid 30M+ rural households to convert ~29.8M hectares of sloping cropland to forest to …
Rather than build an $8–10bn filtration plant, New York City invests in protecting its Catskill/Delaware watershed — ~$2.5bn since 1997 — keeping …
To keep nitrates out of its mineral-water aquifer, Vittel (Nestlé Waters) pays catchment farmers via the Agrivair intermediary to adopt low-input agriculture …
Since 2000, Pimampiro's municipal water fund has paid 27 upstream households US$8–12 per hectare per year to conserve 638 hectares of forest, …
Cuenca's municipal utility ETAPA has co-managed the ~29,000-hectare Parque Nacional Cajas — source of the rivers that supply the city's drinking water …
Since 1983, Croatian firms have paid a statutory levy on revenue into a fund for karst-forest restoration, fire infrastructure and demining; by …
Since 2018 the Greater Cape Town Water Fund has cleared 46,000+ hectares of invasive alien vegetation, recovering 15.2 billion litres of water …
About one-third of Hong Kong's land — roughly 30,000 ha — is gazetted as protected Water Gathering Grounds feeding 17 reservoirs; 16 …
Singapore treats two-thirds of its land as protected water catchment — including the 2,880 ha Central Catchment Nature Reserve — so local …
Since 1873, Vienna has piped untreated drinking water from two protected Alpine catchments (675 km²), avoiding filtration-plant costs; its forestry department manages …
A $20.9M World Bank/GEF/Sida-financed programme helped 229 Albanian upland communities sustainably manage 12,320ha of forest and pasture, avoiding an est. 811,262 tCO2e …
In 2021, Fiji became the first Small Island Developing State to sign a World Bank FCPF Emission Reductions Payment Agreement, worth up …
Since 2009, Agua Somos has pooled Bogotá's water utility, The Nature Conservancy, Fundación Bavaria and public/multilateral funders into a COP $4.6 billion …
Tunisia's national oasis strategy channelled a $6.34M GEF/World Bank-financed project through farmer associations (GDA) to reward sustainable land management across the country's …
A 1987 referendum (58% approval) enshrined moor protection in the Swiss constitution; ~550 raised bogs and 1,200+ fens are now safeguarded nationally. …
Colombia's first Habitat Bank to issue tradeable Voluntary Biodiversity Credits protects 340 ha of Andean cloud forest in Támesis, Antioquia; each credit …
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