Program Area

Environment & Climate

The Environment & Climate group supports healthy natural environments by developing and implementing solutions to protect natural resources, enhance ecosystem services, and scale access to clean energy. We partner with communities, governments, civil society and the private sector to strengthen local capacity, facilitate market-based innovations and mobilize green finance.

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Areas of Expertise

Ecosystem Services

The ECO team interprets and translates science, and applies analysis to increase the confidence of governments, markets and investors in the integrity of ecosystem benefits.

Clean Energy & Circular Economy

Winrock’s clean energy work specializes in developing business models that can launch markets for renewable energy to serve the rural poor, and in strengthening the capacity of local private developers and financial institutions to invest in renewable energy technologies.

Sustainability Services

Winrock empowers businesses and investors to build climate change mitigation strategies and develop solutions that enable the private sector to fulfill its role in advancing a net zero world.

Climate Finance

Winrock helps unlock climate finance to tackle urgent environmental and development challenges. A trusted partner of communities, governments, donors and the private sector in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America, Winrock combines technical knowledge, global perspective and on-the-ground experience to mobilize climate investments and drive transformational change.

ECO Games are interactive, collaborative learning tools designed by Winrock International that help educate players about the impacts community decisions can have on forests, farms, water, climate, livelihoods – and the long-term potential for communities to thrive. Winrock has deep experience working inclusively with stakeholders including community leaders, farmers, governments, natural resource stewards and others to co-develop these curated knowledge-building tools, contributing to durable resilience in our rapidly changing world.

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