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The Climate Q&A…

USAID Administrator Samantha Power visits women-led partner of Winrock International in Vietnam

Law on Environmental Protection and Decree No 08/2022/ND-CP

Marketwatch Op-Ed: here’s how to incentivize cleaning up landfills — the culprit driving one-fifth of global warming

Winrock’s Top 10 stories of 2022

Drought-Affected Communities Restore Degraded Lands to Transform their Future

Planting Trees to Save Sater Reservoirs in Burkina Faso

Scaling up to combat illegal logging in the South Pacific – and cultivate an environmentally sustainable future

ART issues world’s first jurisdictional forestry carbon credits to Guyana

United States, Vietnam launch new project to reduce environmental pollution

The Climate Q&A…

The Climate Q&A…

Climate-smart farming adaptation in Nepal featured on Agrilinks and Climatelinks

USDA awards $45M to Winrock International to expand climate-smart agriculture in Malawi and Thailand

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture visits Arkansas to promote Winrock partnership and historic USDA investments to expand climate-smart agriculture

Winrock CEO appointed co-chair of EXIM Bank’s Council on Climate; Winrock Board Chair Jude Kearney to lead EXIM’s Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee

Winrock to lead $20M USDA climate-smart agriculture commodities and markets project in the U.S.

“Justice For All” Must Include Voices of those Impacted by Environmental Degradation and the Actions Taken to Repair It

August 2022 Innovations

Financing Renewable Energy: Supporting Low-Carbon Economic Development and Fighting Climate Change

Policy Brief: Financial Implications of Climate-Resilient Coffee and Cocoa

USAID-Supported Forest Development Fund Grant Scheme Progresses into Final Phase

Acting Together: Understanding and Fostering Collective Impact are Key to the USAID Reducing Pollution Activity in Vietnam

June 2022 Innovations

USAID in the Sahel Publishes: “When Women Manage Water”

Partnering with Vietnam on Environmental Protection, Pollution Reduction and Climate Action

USAID Builds Stronger Networks for Environmental Protection Through a Collective Impact Approach

“The Journey to Net Zero” and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Agricultural Supply Chains

ACR launches Innovative Registry Infrastructure for Removal Credits

ACR Carbon Markets 101: Additionality and Baselines for Improved Forest Management Projects

April 2022 Innovations

Winrock ECO Pilot: EPcs used consistently by low income households in peri-urban nepal

Winrock’s ECO Game Climate Change Adaptation and Learning Tool Comes to the Caribbean

Winrock CEO Addresses Carbon Pricing and Net Zero at FT Climate Capital Live 2022

The Case for Source Water Protection in WASH Systems: Entry Points and Opportunities

Land, Water, Life: Supporting Communities to Improve Water Security and Resource Management as the Climate Changes

Final Report: Efficient Electric Cooking Market Uptake in Nepal (EECMU)

Trees to Revive farmland in Burkina Faso

Local Conventions Pave Way to Community-Based Conflict Prevention in Niger

Devex Op-Ed: Achieving Climate Goals Requires Landscape-level Thinking

Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) 2021: The Year in Review

USAID Uses a Collective Impact Approach to Help Vietnam Tackle Air Pollution

The climate q&a

Preserving Peatlands: A Hidden Key to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The World’s Forgotten Forests: Stable Forests as a Climate Solution

Tillaberi Commune Mobilizes Its Citizens to Mitigate the Risk and Impact of Floods

ICAO Expands Approval of art Credits for global aviation’s carbon market

USAID Reducing Pollution Activity Annual Program Statement: Collective Impact for Plastic Pollution and Solid Waste Management

Winrock’s ONE-SL Project Highlighted in U.S. Plan to Conserve Global Forests

November 2021 Innovations

Multi-Hazard Contingency Plan – a Hub for Collaboration among Stakeholders to Build Resilience in Communities at risk

ASTER- TerresEauVie – ViMPlus : Collaboration to better inform Communities on land Tenure

USAID-Funded Activities (WFP, Wadata, and TerresEauVie) Join forces to preserve pastoral resources in Kourayé village- Zinder

GEF Names Winrock International Winner of Challenge Program for Adaptation Innovation

Winrock CEO Appointed to EXIM Bank’s Council on Climate

Unavoidable Consumption: Escaping “The Bad Place” – While We Still Can

Prioritizing Decarbonization Pathways to Curb Climate Change

September 2021 Innnovations

ACR Announces Open Public Comment Period on Methodology for Plugging Abandoned and Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells

ACR Publishes International Ozone Depleting Substances Destruction Methodology

Mobilizing Large-scale Climate Solutions from the Forest Sector, Introducing TREES 2.0

New Security Beat Publishes Vanamali Blog

August 2021 Innovations

Working with U.S. Farmers and Local Partners to Protect Water and Soil Health

ART Expands TREES Standard to Mobilize Large-scale Climate Solutions from Forests

Collaborating on Big Data Analytics for Transboundary Aquifer Management in Southern Africa

Making Serious Water Security Issues More Fun: Developing an ECO Game for Cambodia’s Stung Chinit Basin

August 2021 SWP Newsletter

Climate Action Can’t Wait: IPCC Releases Sixth Report

SWP Water Resources Profile Series Launch

Winrock Publishes Detailed Guide to Payment For Forest Environmental Services System

Bedrock Colleague and Winrock Stalwart John Kadyszewski Retires from Winrock

June 2021 Innovations

Communities Unite to Protect Vital Water Supplies in Burkina Faso

A Public-Private Partnership to Strengthen Drinking Water Supply in Barsalogho

Mapping the Future: Communal-Based Cartography in Niger Improves Land Use Practices

Stopping Herder-Farmer Spiralling Violence in Niger

Mahama Ouango, A Self-Reliant Eentrepreneur in the Sahel, Promoting Clean Water within His Community