Reports by EDF experts

Report commissioned by Environmental Defense Fund and prepared by Energy Futures Group provides an overview of key design elements that can be used for a Clean Heat Standards, as well as a look at how four states are approaching these elements in their own CHS development process.

EDF report details how Texas’ $342 million clean air program can be improved to help companies that want to secure state funding for zero-emission trucks.

EDF provides a guide for ports and their partners in the United States to set, plan, implement and achieve their decarbonization goals.

A first-ever annual report for California's new Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program. EDF is an official state support entity for the program. The report covers progress during the first year of the program, from 2022-2023.

Report from EDF and RPA, in collaboration with other stakeholders and partners, provides a set of indicators and metrics that can be used to measure a community’s resilience across a specific geography.

Using a combination of literature review, workshops and expert solicitation, study authors propose a generalized framework to improve ecosystem health in highly altered river basins by reducing ecosystem stressors, enhancing ecosystem processes and increasing ecosystem resilience. The use of this framework is illustrated in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB) of the central United States (U.S.).

Report from EDF has guidance and analysis to help states develop regulatory frameworks for NPA evaluation and implementation, and to help utilities successfully implement NPA programs.

This report from EDF provides an overview of the dual water stressors of too little and too much water, the current and potential future impacts these might have on agriculture, and to highlight emerging adaptation strategies to enhance resilience.

A new survey of agricultural lenders in the upper Midwest reveals important insights about their perceptions and support for farmers’ conservation efforts. As the first of its kind, the survey from EDF and partners can inform agricultural lending institutions’ climate and sustainability strategy development.

This Handbook from EDF guides readers through key decisions and complex issues involved in creating effective crediting systems for natural climate solutions (NCS).