Services Australia's 2016–2020 income-averaging algorithm wrongly raised AU$1.75 billion in welfare debts against ~470,000 recipients. A 2023 Royal Commission ruled the scheme …
Israel's Tax Authority deployed AI to cross-reference capital declarations against financial data, identifying NIS 20 billion (~$7 billion) in discrepancies from a …
Poland's STIR applies ML to daily bank transactions of 4 million entities to detect VAT carousel fraud in near-real-time; STIR-attributable state savings …
Panama Canal Authority pays landowners flat annual fees to restore forest in the 342,000-ha Canal watershed: 10,846 ha reforested (3,650 ha agroforestry, …
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 …
Greifswald, Germany
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 65%53/100
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 32%53/100
Colombia's national voluntary PES marketplace: private companies and public entities compensate their ecological footprint by paying >13,000 rural and indigenous families to …
Medellin, Colombia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 32%53/100
Since February 2024, most development in England must deliver a measurable 10% biodiversity net gain in standardised biodiversity units — a statutory …
London, United Kingdom
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 84%52/100
Opened October 2023 with a ~US$41-44m facility funded by public and corporate sponsors, Vietnam's flagship National Innovation Center anchors partnerships with NVIDIA, …
Hòa Lạc, Hà Nội, Vietnam
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 84%52/100
Since June 2024, Germany's points-based Chancenkarte lets non-EU professionals enter without a job offer to search for work. Official data: 10,148 cards …
Berlin, Germany
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 84%52/100
Abidjan data company data354 and an inter-institutional task force have installed 18-20 open PM2.5 monitors at pharmacies, chosen for reliable power and …
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 84%52/100
Argentina's federal industrial-research agency runs 50+ technology centres across all 24 provinces, delivering testing, technical assistance and technology transfer to over 10,000 …
Malaysia's RM100m Smart Automation Grant matched SME automation spending 1:1 up to RM1m per company, requiring applicants to commit to audited, formula-based …
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 84%52/100
Cyprus's THALIA 2021-2027 scheme grants SMEs 50-70% (up to €50k-€70k) of digital-upgrade and e-commerce costs, with higher rates for mountainous/disadvantaged areas; a …
Nicosia, Cyprus
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 84%52/100
TÜBİTAK's 1513 programme funds Technology Transfer Offices in Turkish universities to commercialise patents and broker licensing deals. It gave 88.3M TL to …
Ankara, Türkiye
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 84%52/100
A bilateral China-Singapore government project built a 123 km2 knowledge district in Guangzhou that has drawn over 400 enterprises, 1,300 high-level talents …