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In 2022, EDF and Deloitte conducted a survey of finance institutions serving the agriculture sector in North America, Europe and India to measure the climate change perceptions, actions and challenges at agricultural finance institutions. This report aims to understand how climate change is perceived by agricultural finance institutions and how they are responding.

EDF report is for agricultural lenders and lending institutions, as well as others interested in understanding the climate risks faced by the agricultural lending sector and the role of agricultural lenders in financing resilient agriculture. We provide a path forward for lenders to mitigate climate risks and finance resilient agriculture.

This global survey is the first of its kind to measure the climate change perceptions, actions and challenges at agricultural finance institutions. This survey reveals that many institutions are alert to the risks and opportunities inherent to climate change, but need greater support to take action.

EDF announced Pedro Martins Barata as its new Associate Vice President for Carbon Markets and Private Sector Decarbonization.

A new report provides states, cities, towns and watershed groups five replicable ways to generate revenue and support natural infrastructure projects.

A new report published today by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping looks at how investors can engage with portfolio companies around shipping emissions, including commitments that companies should make on the pathway to decarbonization and disclosures that investors need to monitor progress.

Report from Environmental Defense Fund and Quantified Ventures highlights five replicable ways to generate revenue that supports natural infrastructure project financing.

Maritime shipping is a cornerstone of global supply chains and a major source of GHG emissions. The industry can move faster toward zero-carbon fuels.

In January 2022, global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company Farmers Business Network®, launched a new rebate program for farm operating loans. The Regenerative Agriculture Finance Operating Line program includes a 0.5% interest rate rebate for farmers who achieve climate and water quality benchmarks established by Environmental Defense Fund. Both farmers who already meet the benchmarks,

In this report, EDF and partners examine the financing challenges that small businesses in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities face after a disaster. We suggest two innovative risk transfer models to improve the recovery of small businesses in disadvantaged areas from weather-related extremes, with spillover benefits for their broader communities.

On this episode of EDF's Degrees podcast, we talk with Mia Diawara and learn about opportunities to invest in 100% beef that never had hooves, fully electric passenger planes, kelp-farming, carbon-sinking robots, and a fungus that both eats carbon and pays farmers.

Taeun Kwon, 32, is so passionate about replacing finance’s power structure of “pale, male and stale” with women’s leadership that she founded a global organization to help women transform the status quo. Kwon and EDF's Degrees host Yesh Pavlik Slenk have a lively conversation about the connection between climate change, power, gender and money.

Study co-authored by EDF analyzes the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) to examine the role of the forestry sector in mitigating climate change and how emissions trading might drive behavior change.

Meaningful methane emission reductions are not only possible—such efforts can potentially have a massive impact on warming.

Farms, ranches and forests can get the U.S. 17% of the way toward the national goal to cut emissions in half by 2030.

This EDF report provides the first set of science-based targets for annual emission reductions from U.S. farms, ranches and forests.

EDF joined the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law to submit letters supporting a proposal from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that would standardize public companies’ disclosures of climate risk information.

This post was co-authored by Natalie Hurd, Western states climate policy intern at EDF. Washington state is on the cusp of finalizing the rules to launch its ambitious new climate policy. This comes at an important moment of opportunity for states to lean into their climate commitments and increase their ambition. The passage of the …

A new policy brief from Environmental Defense Fund shows that investment in a few of the Inflation Reduction Act's key climate finance programs could catalyze 10 times greater investment from the private sector.

Natural gas buyers have strong influence over supply chains, but have yet to expand contract terms to include emissions intensity. Investors can influence the market toward lower-emissions gas.

What if you could fight climate change and save money at the same time? The combination of rebates and tax credits included in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act help you do exactly that.

What if you could fight climate change and save money at the same time? The combination of rebates and tax credits included in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act help you do exactly that.

This blog was coauthored by Maureen Lackner, Huong Nguyen and Aaron Wolfe. New EDF Economics Discussion Paper describes the instrument options available to policy makers in both oil and gas producing as well as importing countries. Policy makers around the world are increasingly recognizing the need to drastically reduce methane emissions in parallel with carbon …

This paper from EDF and ERM summarizes the current status, and projected growth, of the U.S. electric vehicle (EV) industry over the next five to ten years.

California Approves Clean Cars Standards, Speeds Toward a Future Free from Tailpipe Pollution