Odisha's Forest Department has scaled the AI-powered TrailGuard camera network to 220+ units in Similipal Tiger Reserve, transmitting human/animal/vehicle classifications within 40 …
An EU LIFE project (2004–2007, €809,024) in Slovenia's Ljubljansko barje and Cerkniško wetlands produced a national Corncrake Action Plan and, crucially, a …
Namibia's government and GIZ (BMZ-funded, EUR 4m, 2014-2017) back national bush-thinning to restore rangeland and groundwater recharge on land encroached by invasive …
Windhoek, Namibia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 27%53/100
Facing chronic flooding, Malmo's 1997-2002 Augustenborg retrofit added ~10,000 m2 of green roofs and open stormwater channels/ponds across a 1950s estate, cutting …
Malmo, Sweden
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 27%53/100
EU LIFE-funded project mapped carbon stocks across 13,000+ ha of Andalusian Posidonia oceanica meadows and salt marshes (13,085 ktCO2 stored), then created …
Cádiz, Spain
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 27%53/100
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 …
Tirana, Albania
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 27%53/100
A 1987 referendum (58% approval) enshrined moor protection in the Swiss constitution; ~550 raised bogs and 1,200+ fens are now safeguarded nationally. …
Voluntary, state-funded Finnish programme (2020–2030) protecting and restoring mires, wetlands, traditional biotopes and shores; 27,770 ha of mires protected and 20,877 ha …
Helsinki, Finland
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 27%53/100
Parliament-mandated fund (2020) pays landowners to convert drained farmland to forests/wetlands, financed by certified CO₂ credits. By 2022: 24 forests, 230 ha, …
World's first peatland-rewetting carbon standard, launched 2011 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. MoorFutures certificates (EUR 30-123/tCO2e) fund bog rewetting across four German states; over 50,000 …
Finland's voluntary PES programme paying private landowners to conserve biodiversity-rich forests in Southern Finland. Over 96,000 ha permanently or durably protected; €46M …
Helsinki, Finland
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 40%47/100
The EU LIFE-funded 'LIFE to alvars' project (2014-2019) restored 2,501.5 hectares of Estonia's globally rare alvar limestone grasslands, engaging about 600 landowners …
Kuressaare, Estonia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 74%47/100
EU LIFE programme (2019–2025, LIFE18 NAT/PT/000927) removed feral cats and invasive plants from Ria Formosa's barrier islands; Audouin's Gull nests rose from …
Faro, Portugal
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 40%47/100
Since 2018, Iceland's Wetland Fund has rewetted ~300 ha of drained peatland and is piloting an IPCC-aligned carbon-credit methodology with automated water-level …
Reykjavik, Iceland
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 40%47/100