Payment for Environmental Services

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Payments for environmental services (PES) "are a class of economic instruments designed to provide incentives to land users to continue supplying an environmental (ecological) service that is benefiting society more broadly. In some cases, payments may be made to land users to adopt landuse practices that will produce the required service from scratch (e.g. growing trees for carbon sequestration). These payments have five defining features." [1]

Contacts

Accessed November 2008: [2]

Donors

Accessed November 2008: [3]

Partners

Accessed November 2008: [4]

Contact

Web: http://www.cifor.cgiar.org

Resources and articles

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References

  1. About, Payment for Environmental Services, accessed November 2, 2008.
  2. Contacts, Payment for Environmental Services, accessed November 2, 2008.
  3. Donors, Payment for Environmental Services, accessed November 2, 2008.
  4. Partners, Payment for Environmental Services, accessed November 2, 2008.