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Submission for the Information Collection and Preparation (ICP) Component of the Global Stocktake (GST), jointly prepared by Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, and The Nature Conservancy

Joint inputs on the work programme on the framework for non-market approaches under Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement

EDF’s Climate Tech Convening San Francisco brings together leading investors, forward -thinking corporate stakeholders, innovative startups and industry thought leaders.

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.

New York State passes the historic Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022 (Proposal One). The post EDF Celebrates the Passing of the NY Bond Act. first appeared on Growing Returns.

Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp – November 9, 2022

Heather McTeer Toney is leading a movement to make sure that the millions of green jobs of the future go to everyone. After you listen to this episode of EDF's Degrees, you’ll see opportunities you never imagined.

As climate change threatens agricultural production around the world, the agricultural finance institutions that work with farmers also face growing risk to their businesses — as well as untapped opportunities to help farmers prepare for climate impacts. A new report — The Impacts of Climate Change on Agricultural Finance — conducted by Environmental Defense Fund …

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.

Human composting is the environmentally friendly new trend in death care, especially for young people planning for their future.

The United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities issued at COP27 addressing net-zero commitments by non-State actors, particularly businesses, financial institutions, and municipalities. EDF underscores: To keep the 1.5 degree goal within reach, we need integrity. We can’t reach our climate targets without including carbon credits, and we can’t have effective credits without integrity.  

Human composting is the environmentally friendly new trend in death care, especially for young people planning for their future. 

New science has made it clear that life on Earth may well depend upon the startlingly strange and interesting organisms that live in the oceans’ twilight zone and that we must act now to protect it.

Looking to the oceans for answers to the climate crisis.

This is one of three reports produced by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) ocean science team as part of a two-year EDF project on natural climate solutions (NCS). The present report attempts to describe the state of the science, including key uncertainties, surrounding interventions based on macroalgal ecosystems and aquaculture.

This is one of three reports produced by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) ocean science team as part of a two-year EDF project on natural climate solutions (NCS). The present report attempts to describe the state of the science, including key uncertainties, surrounding interventions based on restoring and protecting coastal blue carbon ecosystems.

This is one of three reports produced by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) ocean science team as part of a two-year EDF project on natural climate solutions (NCS). The present report attempts to describe the state of the science, including key uncertainties, surrounding interventions based on open ocean ecosystems.

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

Between setting goals and disclosing progress, it is critical that companies develop a CTAP to ensure their targets are achieved. As partners who work to accelerate corporate action on climate change, We Mean Business Coalition, CDP, Ceres and Environmental Defense Fund have come together to help companies address their climate impacts by defining what should be in a CTAP.

With so much still to do to slow warming and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it’s important to fortify ourselves by celebrating wins along the way. Here are this week's good climate news stories.

This summer, California made national news by adopting a rule that will require all new passenger vehicle sales to be zero emission by 2035. At the same time, the state is also considering a complementary rule to replace medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses to also be zero emissions. To support this transition, California will …

This blog is co-authored by Sergio Sanchez, Global Clean Air Policy Director and Julia Gohlke, Lead Senior Scientist, Climate & Health  Environmental Defense Fund supports the World Health Organization (WHO), The World Bank Group, the United Nations Environment Programme and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, which have appealed to the United Nation Framework Convention on …

Addressing the climate crisis requires crafting policies that can simultaneously enhance ambition, promote just and sustainable development, and support vulnerable communities. EDF believes that with careful design and an understanding of social and historical contexts, carbon markets are one tool that can advance lasting, equitable climate solutions. 

By Scott Seymour and Ari Pottens Canada has set arguably some of the most ambitious goals of any country when it comes to reducing emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane. In addition to joining a global coalition of countries pledging to reduce 30% of their methane emissions, Canada has also vowed to reduce oil …

EDF statement from Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities and Elena Craft, Associate Vice President, Climate and Health