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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.

This report from CATF and EDF identifies the challenges to achieving California’s clean energy transition through the lens of the new and repurposed electricity infrastructure needed to reach state climate and clean energy goals.

Climate change promises a stormier future. Ten years after Sandy, New York and New Jersey are still seeking innovative ways to live with water.

This past summer, Californians have been hit hard by inflation: rising food costs, utility bills and nowhere more obviously than at the gas pump. The cost to fill up a tank has many potential causes and lots of experts are weighing in.

On this episode of EDF's Degrees podcast, we talk with US Forest Service research ecologist Frank Kanawha Lake, who is bringing Indigenous ways of knowing to managing fire into the 21st century. Tune in to learn about what we can do to address wildfires, and how you could use your job to be a part of solutions.

In this segment of CNBC's the Climate Clock, Sonal Bhutra talks to various stakeholders of EDF on EDF's fight against climate change and how innovation can help fight climate change.

Members of Indore’s public health community came together at the Sayaji Hotel on May 5, 2022, to discuss how to promote clean air solutions in the city at a health sector stakeholder engagement workshop.

The European Commission yesterday approved €5.2 billion in subsidies for hydrogen projects. Recently released research from Environmental Defense Fund outlines the risks of hydrogen’s near-term adverse climate impacts if not carefully deployed.  

The cargo ships that move goods across our oceans are the heart of world trade—but the greenhouse gas emissions they release are one of the world’s thorniest decarbonisation challenges. 

As the world’s largest fossil gas importer, Europe is uniquely positioned to set the gold standard for methane mitigation and drive down emissions not only in Europe, but globally.

EDF co-authored a study in published in journal Science, which finds that climate-warming methane emissions from flaring, the practice of burning off gas rather than capturing it for productive use, are five times higher than government estimates — primarily due to unlit and malfunctioning flares.

The good news: Climate action offers a huge job opportunity. The bad news: The environmental workforce remains overwhelmingly white. But not if Wes Gobar can help it. EDF's Degrees podcast talks with him about his journey and why the planet needs us to diversify the green workforce.

Worldwide Electric Vehicle Investments Will Grow to More Than $626 Billion By 2030 – New Report

An archived list of federal clean cars rollback cases.

An archived list of D.C. Circuit cases on state authority.

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.

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

Can you use your MBA to save the planet? EDF's Degrees podcast asks the chief sustainability officer at McDonald’s, Jenny McColloch, who has one of the most influential sustainability jobs in the business world: leading the effort to green McDonald’s nearly 40,000 restaurants.

Farming and forestry solutions are necessary to stabilize the climate. This report from Environmental Defense Fund and ICF provides the first set of science-based targets for annual emission reductions from U.S. farms, ranches and forests.

This EDF report shares new data about dairy and beef producers’ perspectives on enteric methane emissions and mitigation solutions: how likely they would be to adopt an enteric solution today, what kinds of barriers would prevent them from doing so and what features or incentives could streamline implementation.

Businesses have a unique opportunity to drive innovation to reduce enteric methane, according to a new EDF report. Companies with beef and dairy in their supply chains can play a critical role in reducing global enteric emissions by creating incentives and by investing in technologies that are tailored to the needs and concerns of farmers and ranchers.

Methane is the climate opportunity companies and policymakers can’t afford to miss. In fact, reducing methane emissions is critical to slowing global warming in the near term and meeting net zero climate goals. As companies and policymakers look to drive new opportunities to reduce agricultural methane emissions, understanding where producers are today and how to …