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The World’s Forgotten Forests: Stable Forests as a Climate Solution
January 4, 2022
Forests truly are the lungs of our planet. They absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and release oxygen (O2). Their protection is vital to regulate our climate, but also to maintain biodiversity, filter and regulate water, and form the soil and clouds that feed our fields and pastures. At the U.N.’s 2021 Climate Change […]
Unavoidable Consumption: Escaping “The Bad Place” – While We Still Can
November 1, 2021
A storyline in the NBC sitcom “The Good Place” results in all humanity being damned to “The Bad Place” because the nature of modern life ─ not least our seemingly innate, hyper-consumptive human nature ─ means we cannot avoid negative impacts on the planet and all others who live here. Is this the reality of […]
Prioritizing Decarbonization Pathways to Curb Climate Change
October 29, 2021
In a few days, nations across the globe will convene at the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to accelerate actions to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, and preferably below 1.5 ⁰C. The outcomes of COP26 will be critical, especially […]
Mobilizing Large-scale Climate Solutions from the Forest Sector, Introducing TREES 2.0
September 13, 2021
Originally published by Ecosystem Marketplace, a Forest Trends Initiative. The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) has released an expanded and enhanced version of The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES) for measuring, monitoring, verifying and crediting climate progress in the forest sector. The updated version – TREES 2.0 – broadens opportunities to unlock large-scale solutions from forests in […]
How Winrock and Microsoft Worked Together to Manage Data in Vietnam
December 14, 2020
In 2018, under the USAID-funded Vietnam Forests and Deltas Project, Microsoft and Winrock began an exciting partnership. The goal: to harness data across environmental and social indicators to help the Government of Vietnam better understand the impact of its innovative Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) system. PFES pays upstream forest owners to maintain healthy […]
From Every Angle: Winrock’s Commitment to Water Security in Tanzania
November 17, 2020
Winrock has worked in Tanzania across a variety of sectors over the past 40 years, and much of its work there over the last decade has been dedicated to improving water resource allocation and management to ensure sustainable, equitable access to water for all. Water security has always been a priority for Tanzania, especially increasing […]
Return Migration Presents an Opportunity for Change in Nepal
July 15, 2020
Poverty, lack of domestic employment and increased income opportunities outside the country have driven Nepali youth to foreign employment. For a few years the numbers of female migrants have been steadily rising, too. The age restrictions the government places on women who want to migrate to India and the Gulf states for domestic work means […]
Bringing innovation to the conservation of Indonesia’s peatlands
April 30, 2020
Winrock International is helping restore Indonesia’s peatland in a way that will mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, slow land subsidence, combat the threat of fire, and support the tens of thousands of people who live and work there. I recently returned from a trip to Indonesia, where obstacles — and opportunities — are both in full […]
A CLEAN Getaway
March 30, 2020
In the weeks leading up to my trip last month to work onsite with the USDA-funded Creating Linkages for Expanded Agricultural Network (CLEAN) in Laos, the pandemic that has now interrupted daily life in many parts of the world had not yet reached its current proportions. It was my first scheduled trip to support a […]
Women and Climate Leadership
February 10, 2020
On U.N.’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, February 11, Winrock salutes all the girls and women our projects educate and empower — as well as the female scientists on our staff, who use their talents to help societies thrive. Last year I was selected to join the fourth cohort of Homeward Bound, […]