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ACR Publishes International Ozone Depleting Substances Destruction Methodology
September 16, 2021|post
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 […]
Keeping Migrants Safe
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“I decided to go to Malaysia because I was desperate,” says Chantrea Soun, a mother of four in the Kampong Cham province of Cambodia. Soun and her family were living with her aunt in a small village near a rubber plantation, just scraping by. Soun’s husband, Kiry (names have been changed), made a meager living […]
Powering Toward a Bright Future
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As a student in Thailand, Guru Neupane studied renewable energy economics. He came to appreciate the power that can be generated from wind and sun and water. So when he returned to his home country of Nepal, Neupane had an idea. “It seemed to me that Nepal had plenty of free resources, flowing water in […]
Pushing Through the Storm
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Gre’Juana “G” Dennis, an adviser for Innovate Arkansas (IA), first began to notice the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in early February 2020. Business remained on track in the U.S., which had recorded its first documented COVID-19 case a couple weeks before, but the virus had already disrupted manufacturing plans for one IA client […]
Setting the Carbon Standard
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Winrock is known for sound science and environmental integrity, and has worked for decades to mobilize climate actions that benefit the world’s most vulnerable populations through operation of the American Carbon Registry (ACR) and Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART). “Winrock believes that climate change will have a profound impact on the world’s most at-risk populations […]
Winrock International at COP 25
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Winrock has long been a leading voice at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conferences. Former Winrock board member Christiana Figueres brokered the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, and Winrock President and Chief Executive Officer Rodney Ferguson has publicly pledged to continue upholding its goals. At the December 2019 conference in Madrid, Winrock was an impressive […]
A Letter from the President 2020
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How do I begin to capture the scope of loss, devastation and upheaval that shook our world in 2020? I can’t. But I can highlight some facts and sketch a rough timeline: At least 3 million people died in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which was officially declared by the World Health Organization in […]
Mobilizing Large-scale Climate Solutions from the Forest Sector, Introducing TREES 2.0
September 13, 2021|post
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 […]
My Experience As A Volunteer in Senegal
August 31, 2021|volunteer
What was the best part about contributing to Farmer-to-Farmer as a national volunteer in your country/region ? The best part of my contribution with Farmer-to-Farmer as a local volunteer in my country is the capacity building of the teachers of the vocational Training Center of Nioro du Rip in business marketing. It was interesting for […]
Working with U.S. Farmers and Local Partners to Protect Water and Soil Health
August 27, 2021|post
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 […]