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

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.

With a new coastal resilience master plan, Virginia leaders have an opportunity to identify and prepare for climate-induced flood risks that impact all Virginians. The post Nearly 1 million Virginians are at risk of flooding by 2080. The state just released a plan to address that risk. first appeared on Growing Returns.

With global warming, the proportion of people living in flood-prone areas has risen by 20% to 24% since 2000. Here's what we can do about it.

When it comes to slowing the warming of our planet, there is no substitute for immediate, dramatic reductions in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. But emissions reductions alone won’t be enough to limit warming to the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal at the heart of the 2015 Paris Agreement, or even to the Agreement’s upper limit of …

How coastal cities can better fund natural infrastructure and protect their residents. The post Virginia Beach’s new flood bond can be a model for other cities. Here’s how. first appeared on Growing Returns.

EDF Statement from Elizabeth Gore, Senior Vice President, Political Affairs

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.

This blog was co-authored by Sonali Deshpande, Program Analyst for U.S. Climate at EDF. At a COP26 event on November 5, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced a new, visionary effort to scale up solutions that can draw down and store carbon pollution from the atmosphere: The Carbon Negative Shot.  The Carbon Negative Shot …

This post was coauthored by Ruben Lubowski. Stakeholders from all over the world are gathering in Glasgow for the COP26, which is shaping up to be one of the most pivotal climate change convenings. While participants will discuss how to tackle climate change and build back better (and greener), they will also focus on how …

Takeaways from COP26 for food companies: Foster collaboration, focus on short and long-lived climate pollutants, protect tropical forests.

Here are some highlights from the United Nations climate summit (COP26) and why it was actually more productive than news accounts made it seem.

Ann M. Bartuska joins EDF as a Senior Contributing Scientist to help identify pathways for atmospheric carbon removal and storage in forest and agricultural systems.

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. 

The UN climate talks at COP26 in Glasgow finally gave us a strong Paris Agreement rulebook for international cooperation through carbon markets.

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 and nearly 100 organizations send a call to action urging the Corps to usher in a new era of comprehensive and nature-based flood risk reduction.

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.

A new report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) provides insight into how to do that, showing that natural infrastructure can save hundreds of billions of dollars annually in climate adaptation costs, while delivering the same or better outcomes as traditional, hardened infrastructure. The post Natural infrastructure can address growing climate impacts and save hundreds of billions of dollars annually in the process first appeared on Growing Returns.

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

EDF President Fred Krupp argues that we need to focus on the most cost-effective methods for reducing climate pollution even as we take on the challenge of moving from a mostly fossil-fuel-powered world to a clean global economy.

Seaweed forests and algal beds cover about 3.5 million square km of our planet — only about 1% of the ocean’s surface — but these amazing ecosystems generate benefits to people and nature far out of proportion to their size. The economic and social values derived from seaweed are impressive: about 650,000 people are employed …