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    Assessing views on soil carbon in croplands
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    Report
    Date: August 4, 2022

    To better understand areas of scientific agreement and disagreement about the climate mitigation potential of cropland soil carbon, EDF asked American University to survey 31 soil carbon scientists working in academia, nonprofit organizations and government agencies. These are the results.

  • Power Sector Decarbonization in North Carolina
    Type:
    Report
    Source: EDF
    Date: July 15, 2022

    New analysis from Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Rural Beacon Initiative (RBI) shows that joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) can be an integral tool for North Carolina to cost-effectively reduce emissions and meet the state’s carbon reduction goals.

  • Financial opportunities for Brazil from reducing deforestation in the Amazon
    Type:
    Report
    Source: Amazonia 2030
    Date: July 7, 2022
    This policy brief quantifies the size of the opportunity from reducing deforestation in the Legal Amazon in U.S. dollars, and provides a roadmap of policy and regulatory changes, and actions, required to seize this opportunity.
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    Impact of the Voluntary Carbon Market on Tropical Forest Countries – Implications for Corresponding Adjustments
    Type:
    Report
    Date: July 7, 2022

    Report from Trove Research, supported by  Environmental Defense Fund, shows that growing corporate demand for carbon credits could aid tropical forest countries in achieving their national climate obligations.

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    Just transition in Poland: A review of public policies to assist polish coal communities in transition
    Type:
    Report
    Source: EDF Library
    Date: June 16, 2022

    This report is part of a series of papers prepared by Resources for the Future (RFF) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Scholars from RFF and WiseEuropa—an independent Polish think tank—examine Poland’s energy transition to distill lessons that could help decarbonization efforts in the United States and around the world.

  • Countries must heed IPCC reports as they review collective progress under the global stocktake
    Type:
    Report
    Source: EDF Blog
    Date: April 13, 2022

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has made it clear that the world is not on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

  • Summary for Policymakers: Carbon Management in Net-Zero Energy Systems
    Type:
    Report
    Source: EDF
    Date: March 31, 2022

    To avert the worst impacts of climate change, the Biden Administration has set a goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2050.

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    Pledges to Policy: Evaluating North Carolina’s Progress on Critical Climate Targets
    Type:
    Report
    Date: March 25, 2022

    Governor Cooper has committed North Carolina to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 40% from 2005 levels by 2025, and at least 50% from 2005 levels by 2030. With eight years remaining, the state is not currently on track to reach its emissions targets.

  • Act Now or Pay Later: The Costs of Climate Inaction for Ports and Shipping
    Type:
    Report
    Source: EDF
    Date: March 15, 2022

    A report from EDF and RTI International reveals that the global shipping and port industry is susceptible to billions of dollars in infrastructure damage and trade disruption from climate change impacts.

  • Linking flights and forests
    Type:
    Report
    Source: EDF
    Date: March 8, 2022

    The essential role of forests in supporting global aviation's response to climate change: an overview from EDF and partners for ICAO policy makers.