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Payments for ecosystem services

A variety of arrangements through which financial incentives are offered to actors to encourage them to not cause environmental harm.

This factsheet presents an example of payments for ecosystem services scheme in place in the EU. See the EU pol­luter pays Member State factsheets for more examples of other polluter pays instruments in each Member State.

Payments for ecosystem services
  • General publications
  • 5 October 2021
Payments for ecosystem services