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Joint Inputs from Environmental Defense Fund, Conservation International, and The Nature Conservancy on the framework for non-market approaches under Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement.

Paper published in the journal Water by EDF scientists reviews the evidence that implementing natural infrastructure in upstream agricultural landscapes could improve water quality and reduce flood risk for downstream communities, and identifies a suite of natural infrastructure measures that provide the greatest benefits.

EDF review of the scientific consensus about cropland soil carbon sequestration.

En los últimos años, se han conseguido importantes avances en materia de políticas de incentivo a la reducción de la deforestación. En esta misma línea, se pueden citar varios ejemplos concretos de cómo esta estrategia se puede aplicar en el terreno que debe tenerse en cuenta a la hora de evaluar los posibles riesgos y beneficios de la iniciativa LEAF. 

Portuguese version of "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Carbon Credit: Indigenous peoples and incentives for forest protection"

The German Development Bank’s REDD Early Movers (REM) Program in Acre and Mato Grosso states illustrates how equitable and effective jurisdictional emissions reductions programs have worked, and model how they can work elsewhere.

EDF fact sheet on carbon dioxide removal (CDR), a class of natural and technological strategies designed to remove carbon pollution directly from the atmosphere.

Esta es una traducción de un artículo que se publicó originalmente en Environmental Research Letters, Volumen 16, Número 9.

Esta é uma tradução de um artigo publicado na Environmental Research Letters, Volume 16, Número 8

This synthesis from EDF is for federal and state policymakers looking to shape public investments in climate mitigation through agricultural soil carbon credits, protocol developers, project developers and aggregators, buyers of credits and others interested in learning about the landscape of soil carbon.

This report was prepared to assist Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in providing recommendations to FEMA about how a new loan program resulting from the Safeguarding Tomorrow through Ongoing Risk Mitigation (STORM) Act can be structured to encourage nature-based solutions.

Letter to OMB Acting Director Shalanda Young for advancing equity and support for underserved communities.

Letter to Administrator Criswell on opportunities to increase equity in flood resilience. 

Stakeholder presentation for National Academy of Sciences grant to examine and address the vulnerability of petrochemical facilities along Galveston Bay to flood-induced chemical spills and releases.

Credits for soil carbon sequestration lack comparability and consistency. EDF and the Woodwell Climate Research Center reviewed the 12 published protocols used to generate soil carbon credits through carbon sequestration in croplands.

EDF responds to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's request for public input on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's climate-smart agriculture and forestry strategy.

Farmers stand willing to contribute to climate solutions. It’s time for Congress and the USDA to help them.

EDF's agricultural priorities for the incoming Biden-Harris administration.

What if over-compliant farmers were financially rewarded to keep those forests they can legally deforest alive? That’s the aim of CONSERV, a novel and groundbreaking forest protection program recently launched in Brazil.

Climate change threatens key life support systems of our planet — and the ocean is no different. Read EDF Oceans' Fisheries for the Future blog series, where we discuss sustainable fisheries management for a climate-impacted world, through nine concise blogs on various topics.

Restoring natural infrastructure offers much promise as a means to reduce both flood hazard and exposure to complement and supplement other flood damage reduction strategies.

The integration of new digital tools and systems in oil and gas industry operations offers an opportunity for companies to understand methane leaks.

EDF and Quantified Ventures investigate how environmental impact bonds can help make coastal communities more resilient to climate change.