Inversiones voluntarias – vinculadas con insumos
Contrataciones públicas ecológicas:
Las instituciones públicas emplean criterios ambientales para adquirir bienes, servicios y trabajos cuyo ciclo de vida implique un impacto ambiental reducido. Estas abarcan tanto la contratación de autoridades y entidades.
Reservas agrícolas voluntarias:
Los propietarios renuncian al derecho de uso del todo o parte de sus tierras a cambio de un pago.
Concesiones de conservación:
Son contratos de gestión de la tierra entre un gobierno o propietario y un comprador conservacionista para usar la tierra en procesos de conservación y garantizar la protección de la misma al menos durante el período estipulado, a cambio de una compensación.
Pagos directos por servicios ecosistémicos:
Los beneficiarios de los servicios ecosistémicos pagan/compensan directamente a los proveedores de los mismos por manejar la tierra de manera sostenible. Los pagos están condicionados a resultados específicos y/o a la realización de ciertas acciones acordadas que fortalezcan los servicios ecosistémicos.
Example
Example
EU Green Public Procurement Policy: A voluntary policy to support the implementation of GPP within Member States. Life-cycle costs form a central part of the approach to GPP, to award contracts by public authorities.
Voluntary farm set asides:
Landowners voluntarily give up the right to use part of or all of their farmland, in exchange for payments.
Example
Example
Costa Rica: National forestry fund pays up to USD 50/ha/year to landowners to promise to preserve existing forests to allow natural regeneration.
Conservation concessions
Land management contracts between a government or landowner and a conservation-minded buyer to use as a territory for conservation processes and guarantee that the land will be protected, at least during the period considered, in exchange for compensation.
Example
Example
Upper Essequibo Conservation Concession, Guyana: With funds intended to regulate logging in timber, Conservation International paid market rates to protect the land for 30 years to prevent illegal logging and to ensure the preservation of biodiversity and wildlife within the forest ecosystem
Direct Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES):
Beneficiaries of ecosystem services directly pay/ compensate providers to sustainably manage land to provide ecosystem services. Payments are conditional on specific ecosystem services outcomes and/or performance of agreed actions to enhance ecosystem services.
Example
Example
Vittel, France: With funds Nestle Waters finances farmers in the Vittel catchment to adopt improved dairy farming practices. These include reduction of stocking rates and agro-chemical use, improved waste management and animal feed to reduce nitrate concentration of the aquifer from agricultural intensification.