Germany's Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG) has required biodiversity offsetting since 1976. Eco-Accounts allow landowners to pre-register habitat improvements as tradable credits …
Bonn, Germany
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 46%47/100
Africa's longest-running community wildlife PES: Zimbabwe Rural District Councils market wildlife access to safari operators, distributing revenues to 50+ communal areas across …
New Zealand’s NZD 1.185 billion pandemic-recovery conservation programme (2020–2025): 225 DOC-led projects employed 11,000+ workers for invasive species control and habitat restoration. …
Wellington, New Zealand
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 46%47/100
Pacific islands' first indigenous-owned Plan Vivo carbon project: Drawa communities conserve 4,120 ha of tropical rainforest on Vanua Levu, generating 18,800 tCO₂e/year. …
Savusavu, Fiji
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 46%47/100
Europe's first supply-side biodiversity compensation site: CDC Biodiversité restored 357 ha of orchards to rare Crau steppic grassland (€12.5M; 2008–10). Great bustard …
Saint-Martin-de-Crau, France
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 46%47/100
Largest biodiversity credit market in Australia: 381 stewardship agreements covering 109,911 ha under NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. A$467M Stewardship Payments Fund …
Sydney, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 46%47/100
86 communal conservancies covering 16.6M ha (about 20% of Namibia) pay 230,000+ rural members to manage wildlife and natural resources. Elephant populations …
Nepal's jurisdictional REDD+ programme covering 1.7M ha of the Terai Arc Landscape: 2.4M tCO2e reduced 2018–2024, US$9.4M World Bank FCPF payment (2025). …
Tajikistan's World Bank-funded resilience project (2020-2025) trained over 10,000 disadvantaged youth in Khatlon and Gorno-Badakhshan in digital literacy, entrepreneurship and critical thinking, …
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 93%43/100
Botswana's national self-help housing scheme, running since 1973, allocates serviced plots for owner-built homes. Two evaluations (2007, 2018) of Gaborone plots found …
Croatia's Ministry of Economy ran three rounds of EU-funded Digitalisation Vouchers (2022-2024/25), disbursing EUR 10.6 million to 2,016 SMEs out of 3,912 …