Reports by EDF experts

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).

Environmental Defense Fund, Cornell University, and Kansas State University studied how severe weather financially impacts Kansas farms and how management choices and government programs mitigate the negative impacts. The study used a 40-year Kansas farm financial dataset and historic weather data to measure the impacts of extreme heat on gross and net farm income.

This report consolidating China's policies and actions on carbon peaking and neutrality to share the country's success in implementing a "dual carbon" strategy and provide insights to guide future efforts.

This report aims to educate, empower and mobilize diverse policymakers, private asset managers and owners, and business executives toward agrifood systems transformation with far greater and more equitably distributed health, climate and financial returns for all.

Analysis by Environmental Defense Fund finds that enough U.S. battery production capacity has already been announced to supply all the electric vehicles – both cars and trucks – expected to be sold in 2030.