Testing Sustainable Financing for Conservation in the Greater Mekong

WWF’s Carbon and Biodiversity (CarBi) project is tackling the drivers of forest loss in the Central Annamite Mountains located within both Laos and Vietnam, one of the world’s biodiversity hot spots. This case study outlines the efforts of the CarBi project of developing sustainable financing mechanisms, specifically Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) schemes, to support conservation interventions beyond the project lifetime. It concludes with a number of recommendations for the establishment of similar financing mechanisms throughout developing nations.