FOREXT Fridays: Payment for Ecosystem Services
Practical tools, challenges, and lessons learned
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Rodrigo Mendes, EFI
A Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) system is a mechanism that compensates landowners monetarily for protecting and preserving forests. It improves the environmental quality of natural resource management.
This FOREXT Fridays session explores three practice-oriented PES experiences, covering implementation, challenges, and lessons forest advisors and organisations can apply in their countries.
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