Estonia Natura 2000 Compensation Payments — Private Forest and Farmland Management
Estonia
Estonia's EAFRD-funded Rural Development Plan pays private landowners €60–134/ha for Natura 2000 management restrictions. By 2019: €4.3 M/year for 64,000 …
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Queensland state fund: AUD $132M+ across 3 rounds for carbon farming with verified co-benefits. By 2024: 315,400+ ha, 1.15M+ ACCUs from 20+ projects; 426 projects — most in Australia. Bridges carbon markets to biodiversity, Reef water quality and First Nations outcomes.
Queensland's Land Restoration Fund is a state fund that has committed more than AUD 132M across three rounds for carbon farming with verified co-benefits, linking carbon to biodiversity, Great Barrier Reef water quality and Indigenous outcomes.
By 2024 it covered more than 315,400 ha with 1.15M+ ACCUs expected from 20+ projects, across 426 projects.
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Estonia
Estonia's EAFRD-funded Rural Development Plan pays private landowners €60–134/ha for Natura 2000 management restrictions. By 2019: €4.3 M/year for 64,000 …
Brazil
Brazil's first ecological fiscal transfer (1991) redistributes ~R$500 million/year of state VAT revenue to municipalities hosting protected areas or water …
Romania
Romania's PNDR Measure 10 pays 125–500 EUR/ha to smallholder farmers maintaining biodiversity-rich HNV meadows. Over 2015–2019, 212,413 beneficiaries received EUR …
Norway
Since 2004, Norway pays private forest owners to permanently protect valuable boreal forest. ~870 areas protected; ~NOK 3.3 billion disbursed; …
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