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Evidence base for the Montado Capital Natural proposal: flagship PES and nature-based-solutions schemes that pay land managers for carbon, biodiversity, water, soil and fire-resilience.
Sources: PES & Nature-Based Solutions
How many collected practices carry evidence for each of the project's value sources — surfacing where the design has thin precedent.
| Value source | Practices with evidence |
|---|---|
| carbon | 10 / 10 |
| biodiversity | 10 / 10 |
| water_soil | 10 / 10 |
| fire_resilience | 10 / 10 |
| governance | 10 / 10 |
Since 2011, companies reward cork-oak landowners in Coruche/Chamusca/Ponte de Sor for FSC-certified good management that protects the Tejo-Sado …
Costa Rica's national PES, created by the 1996 Forest Law, has paid landowners US$565M to conserve 1.15M+ hectares …
To keep nitrates out of its mineral-water aquifer, Vittel (Nestlé Waters) pays catchment farmers via the Agrivair intermediary …
Rather than build an $8–10bn filtration plant, New York City invests in protecting its Catskill/Delaware watershed — ~$2.5bn …
Since 1995 South Africa has paid the unemployed to clear water-hungry invasive alien plants — 2.5M+ hectares cleared …
The UK's government-backed standard for woodland-creation carbon: validated projects are predicted to sequester ~13 MtCO2 over their lifetime, …
A 20-year Plan Vivo agroforestry-carbon scheme run by ECOTRUST: 50,000+ smallholders, 34,000 ha, ~7.5 MtCO2, US$8.7M in performance-based …
The world's largest PES: since 1999 China has paid 30M+ rural households to convert ~29.8M hectares of sloping …
The UK's quality-assurance standard for peatland restoration: it issues verified carbon units for rewetting degraded peat, delivering bundled …
Since February 2024, most development in England must deliver a measurable 10% biodiversity net gain in standardised biodiversity …
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