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Digital Inclusion: Boosting Broadband Connectivity Key to Renewal in Underserved U.S. Communities
October 4, 2021
Kevin Smith, the mayor of Helena-West Helena, Ark., sits at his desk in City Hall virtually disconnected from the rest of the world. If he needs to send an email, conduct research online, or just connect to a video conference, the city’s top elected official is forced to wait. He stares at his computer screen, […]
ACR Announces Open Public Comment Period on Methodology for Plugging Abandoned and Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells
September 30, 2021
The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, announces the public stakeholder consultation period for a Methodology for the Quantification, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Reductions from the Plugging Abandoned & Orphaned Oil and Gas (AOOG) Wells. This first-of-a-kind Methodology — developed by ACR in partnership with Dr. Mary Kang […]
ACR Publishes Methodology for Improved Forest Management on Canadian Forestlands
September 23, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, AR, September 22, 2021 – The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, has approved a Methodology for the Quantification, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions and Removals from Improved Forest Management (IFM) on Canadian Forestlands. Similar to the ACR’s published Improved Forest Management Methodology for Quantifying […]
The Face of a Leader from Rural Khatlon
September 23, 2021
Sharofat Abdulloeva, a 52-year old resident of Yangiyor village of Vakhsh district in Khatlon province talks with pride about her agribusiness enterprise Aziza, which employs 50 female seasonal employees. However, just 15 years ago, this was only a dream for Sharofat. In the village where Sharofat grew up, women rarely engaged in work outside of […]
Winrock Receives Funding from Walmart to Assist Black-owned Businesses in the South
September 22, 2021
Little Rock, Ark. – September 22, 2021 – Winrock International has received funding from Walmart through the Walmart.org Center for Racial Equity to provide business development support to Black-owned e-commerce and wholesale retail enterprises in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The grant will support the Readying Small Business for Access to Capital program to help businesses […]
ACR Announces Public Comment Period for Updated Improved Forest Management (IFM) Methodology
September 21, 2021
The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, is soliciting public comments on an updated version 2.0 of its approved Methodology for the Quantification, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions and Removals from Improved Forest Management in Non-Federal U.S. Forestlands. Similar to previous versions of the Methodology, greenhouse gas […]
ACR Publishes International Ozone Depleting Substances Destruction Methodology
September 16, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., September 16, 2021 – The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a non-profit enterprise of Winrock International, is celebrating the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer by announcing the approval of a new Methodology for the Quantification, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification of GHG Emissions Reductions from the Destruction of Ozone Depleting […]
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 […]
Working with U.S. Farmers and Local Partners to Protect Water and Soil Health
August 27, 2021
Wisconsin’s Kickapoo River has a complicated history. For thousands of years, Indigenous people managed this agroecological landscape for foraged food, crops, and game ── most recently the Ho-Chunk, Oceti Sakowin, Meskwaki, and Kickapoo people. When European settlers displaced these Indigenous peoples from much of their homeland, cut down trees, and began to plow the watershed’s […]
Launch of USAID Cambodia Counter Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) Program
August 26, 2021
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, August 26, 2021 — The United States launched a new, five-year USAID-funded Cambodia Counter Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) activity that will address the root causes of human trafficking, protect vulnerable populations from trafficking, and assist the Cambodian government to combat trafficking and support victims more effectively. The activity, launched on August 26 […]