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ART issues world’s first jurisdictional forestry carbon credits to Guyana
December 1, 2022
ARLINGTON, VA, December 1, 2022 – The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) has issued the world’s first TREES credits to Guyana. This also marks a milestone as the first time a country has been issued carbon credits specifically designed for the voluntary and compliance carbon markets for successfully preventing forest loss and degradation — a […]
Marketwatch op-ed: how we can keep cool without making climate change worse
November 22, 2022
By Winrock’s Mary Grady, director of the American Carbon Registry This op-ed was originally published on MarketWatch. Read the original story here. Recent heatwaves have led to thousands of deaths and captured headlines as we enter a dangerous new era of extreme heat contributing to dangerous wildfires and harming agriculture production. Yet, one of the […]
United States, Vietnam launch new project to reduce environmental pollution
November 15, 2022
HANOI, November 15, 2022 – Today, the United States Mission to Vietnam, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), launched a new USAID project to reduce environmental pollution through Vietnamese-led collective action. The new project, Reducing Pollution, is a five-year, $11.3 million effort implemented by USAID […]
The Climate Q&A…
November 10, 2022
You’ve mentioned the need to identify and plug climate finance gaps. Just how big are those gaps, and how can Winrock, our partners and others help to fill them? In simple terms a climate finance gap refers to the difference between what we need to invest to meet climate goals compared to what we are […]
Feed the Future projects implemented by Winrock pivot to address global food, fuel and fertilizer shortages
October 19, 2022
The global economy has been battered by COVID, the war in Ukraine, and extreme weather caused by climate change that has withered crops and flooded entire food-producing regions in Africa and Asia. The resulting humanitarian crises, supply chain breakdowns and inflation have affected people everywhere. But smallholder farmers and agribusiness owners in low-income countries are […]
Winrock awarded $7.9M by USDOS under the Program to End Modern Slavery to fight human trafficking linked to climate change
October 11, 2022
Winrock International has been selected by the U.S. Department of State to implement a $7.9 million project awarded by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons under the USDOS Program to End Modern Slavery. The project will focus on Bangladesh’s farming and fishing industries. Winrock Senior Director of Human Rights, Education and Empowerment […]
The Climate Q&A…
September 29, 2022
You are Winrock International’s new Director of Net Zero Climate Services. Can you tell us why you joined Winrock and what some of your goals are? Winrock for me has always had a reputation as a pragmatic, results-oriented organization. When I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, I saw their work in action. Winrock […]
Climate-smart farming adaptation in Nepal featured on Agrilinks and Climatelinks
September 27, 2022
A blog posted on both Agrilinks and Climatelinks features a family that successfully adopted climate-smart farming practices in Nepal with support from the Feed the Future KISAN II project implemented by Winrock International. “Adaptation at the top of the world” tells the story of Surendra Bahadur Rana and his brothers, who once relied on seasonal […]
USDA awards $45M to Winrock International to expand climate-smart agriculture in Malawi and Thailand
September 22, 2022
September 22, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a $178 million investment in Food for Progress projects to support Biden-Harris administration priorities of climate-smart agriculture and facilitating trade, and selected Winrock to implement two of the seven projects. “Our team at Winrock is thrilled to have the chance to contribute to the […]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture visits Arkansas to promote Winrock partnership and historic USDA investments to expand climate-smart agriculture
September 21, 2022
Breylan Portwood, a young Black farmer from Brinkley, Ark., seemed surprised when U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asked if he would mind standing to be recognized. The secretary was in the middle of a panel discussion about a set of ambitious new USDA-funded climate-smart agriculture and markets projects soon to be started in Arkansas and […]