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May 2014

Payment Types and Participation in Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs: Stated Preferences of Landowners

Environment for Development Initiative (EfD)

Because the effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs depends on landowners’ engagement, understanding the relationship between the type of payment and participation is a key issue.

July 2017

Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation

This study evaluates a program of payments for ecosystem services (PES) in Uganda that offered forest-owning households annual payments of 70,000 Ugandan shillings per hectare if they conserved their forest. The program was implemented as a randomized controlled trial in 121 villages, 60 of which received the program for two years.
March 2017

Managing Coastal Ecosystems in the Philippines: What Cash for Work Programmes Can Contribute

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Managing Coastal Ecosystems in the Philippines: What Cash for Work Programmes Can Contribute compares three incentive schemes that may induce resource users to protect or rehabilitate coastal resources: Payments for Ecosystem Services, Environmental Conditional Cash Transfers and Cash for Work.
May 2008

Payments for Ecosystem Services, Getting Started: A Primer

Forest Trends, Katoomba Group, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
A primer designed to provide the reader with a solid understanding of what Payments for Ecosystem Service (PES) are and how they work.
28 June 2018

Optimizing Public Payment Support to Enhance the Credit Rating of Renewable Projects in India

Vinit Atal, Gireesh Shrimali
Researchers have developed a five-step methodology for central and state level government agencies looking to provide financial risk mitigation interventions to improve the credit profile of renewable energy projects in India.
December 2009

Payment for Ecosystem Services

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

For an economy to “grow green”, investments must be made in natural capital.

September 2018

Public Cash for Oil and Gas: Mapping federal fiscal support for fossil fuels

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Canada is still the largest provider of subsidies to oil and gas production in the G7 per unit of GDP. This briefing spotlights the remaining subsidies to oil and gas production in Canada, focusing on two specific types of subsidies: direct transfers and fiscal exemptions made available to fossil fuel extraction and production.
June 2020

Jobs, Growth and Sustainability: A New Social Contract for India’s Recovery

Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
This paper discusses India's effort to balance containing the COVID-19 pandemic and saving lives while also preserving businesses and livelihoods.
June 2018

Solutions in Focus: Financing sustainable management of marine and coastal biodiversity

Panorama, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GRID-Arendal, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
In this booklet, Solutions in Focus: Financing sustainable management of marine and coastal biodiversity, examples of the implementation of financing mechanisms in the marine and coastal realm are featured.
November 2018

Forests and Water: Valuation and payments for forest ecosystem services

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Forests play an important role in producing and regulating freshwater flows, and forested watersheds are essential for sustaining freshwater supply. Forests and Water: Valuation and payments for forest ecosystem services assesses the governance, design and funding sources of various payments for watershed services (PWS) schemes, and promotes the understanding of a wide range of values related to watershed services of forests and its co-benefits, such as carbon mitigation.

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