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Winrock’s ONE-SL Project Highlighted in U.S. Plan to Conserve Global Forests
November 11, 2021
At COP26 during the World Leaders Summit Forest Day session on November 2, 2021, the United States announced the Plan to Conserve Global Forests: Critical Carbon Sinks, which includes an inventory of new and existing programs that support the implementation of the Plan including the Department of State-funded, Winrock-executed Offsetting National Emissions from Sustainable Landscapes Plus […]
Winrock Receives Visa Foundation Funding to Help Southern Small Businesses Recover and Grow
November 11, 2021
Little Rock, Ark. – November 11, 2021 – Winrock International has received a $500,000 grant from the Visa Foundation to promote economic growth in the U.S. South and Southeast by helping small businesses access loan assistance from the Southern Opportunity and Resilience (SOAR) Fund. Through the Visa Foundation-funded SOAR Technical Assistance Project, Winrock and partners […]
LEAF Coalition Announces $1 Billion Mobilized, Intent for REDD+ Transactions and New Participants
November 9, 2021
GLASGOW — November 8, 2021 – The Secretariat of the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART), hosted by Winrock International, welcomes the series of announcements last week at COP26 by the LEAF (Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance) Coalition. At the World Leaders’ Summit, LEAF announced it has mobilized $1 billion USD for forest country governments […]
GEF Names Winrock International Winner of Challenge Program for Adaptation Innovation
November 8, 2021
November 8, 2021 – Today at COP26, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) announced that Winrock International is one of the 10 new winners of its Challenge Program for Adaptation Innovation, a competition that provides seed funding for innovative initiatives to help vulnerable countries cope with the climate crisis. Winrock, in partnership with the U.N. Food […]
U.S. Department of State Commits Additional Funds to the United States – Jamaica Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership
November 5, 2021
As the Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership between the United States and Jamaican governments enters its final year, the U.S. Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Office announced it provided an additional $597,000 USD (approximately JMD $89.6M) in financial support to its civil society partners – Warnath Group and Winrock International – to expand on […]
Winrock CEO Appointed to EXIM Bank’s Council on Climate
November 5, 2021
November 5, 2021 – In conjunction with COP26, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) today announced the appointment of Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson to its newly established Chair’s Council on Climate, a subcommittee of EXIM’s Advisory Committee. EXIM named Climate Finance Advisors CEO Stacy Swann as chair of the new council. “I’m […]
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 […]
Beating the Opioid Crisis: Transforming Stigma into Support for Prevention and Awareness
October 27, 2021
Arkansas has the second-highest opioid prescription rate in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s an alarming statistic: For every 100 people in The Natural State, physicians issued an average of 93.5 prescriptions of the highly-addictive, pain-relieving drugs in 2018, the latest year for which CDC data are available. […]
Winrock International Relocating Headquarters to its Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub
October 26, 2021
October 26, 2021 – Winrock International, the Arkansas-based national and international economic development organization, today announced it will relocate its headquarters in 2022 within its Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, located in North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District. The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub has been part of Winrock International since 2016. Winrock will upgrade the Hub […]