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Most practices in: United States of America (13) · Brazil (8) · Australia (7)
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 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 — …
Bulgaria's CAP Strategic Plan pays farmers €1.03bn in eco-schemes and €558M for climate/environment rural-development measures (2023-2027), but monitoring finds Natura 2000 grassland …
Since 1999 South Korea's Han River Act has charged Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi-do water users KRW 170 per m3 to fund upstream …
Colombia's Resolution 1517/2012 created a mandatory, ratio-based (up to 9:1) biodiversity offset system for mining and infrastructure licensing. Case studies quantify offset …
Flemish agri-environment PES: 2,529 farmers received €11.1M in 2025 for managing 5,948 ha of agricultural land for biodiversity — botanical grasslands, flower …
FORAGUA pools water tariff revenues from 14 southern Ecuador municipalities to conserve 337,000 ha of cloud forest and páramo; the ~US$389k annual …
Hungary pays ~€115/ha/yr (Decree 269/2007, updated under CAP 2023–27) for Natura 2000 grassland maintenance. 250,000 ha enrolled; 7,500+ farmers paid; €19M disbursed …
PNG's first UNFCCC REDD+ pilot: 164 clans (~15,000 people) hold Hunstein Range forest under Verified Carbon Standard credits — 4.09M credits issued …
In November 2024, The Bahamas refinanced US$300m of commercial debt via Standard Chartered, backed by an IDB guarantee, to fund the Bahamas …
In September 2022, Barbados converted US$150m of costly debt into a cheaper Blue Loan backed by IDB and TNC guarantees, redirecting an …
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