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Payment for ecosystem services

Climate finance that provides financial incentives to land or resource managers in return for managing land in ways that maintain or enhance ecosystem services, supporting adaptation and resilience.

Definition source: AGROVOC: payments for ecosystem services

Synonyms

PES

Broader

Climate finance

Narrower

none

Relations

produces Carbon sequestered

Counts as adaptation

Intervention addresses a climate hazard, OR produces a qualifying outcome (adaptation-specific or hazard-conditioned), OR produces an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when done purely for productivity, market, or development with no hazard link and no hazard-referenced result.

Mitigation

Mitigation-conditional: Intervention reduces emissions of a source or gas, OR sequesters carbon, OR produces a mitigation outcome; NOT mitigation when done for productivity, market, or development reasons only, with no emissions link and no emissions-referenced result.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

INT_123 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_123
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_123)