Reports and publications
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This report analyzes the impact of conservation on farm budgets with three in-depth case studies.
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This decision tree outlines a hypothetical scenario in order order to illustrate how a Groundwater Sustainability Agency would make pumping allocations consistent with groundwater rights law.
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This decision tree outlines a hypothetical scenario in order order to illustrate how a Groundwater Sustainability Agency would make pumping allocations consistent with groundwater rights law.
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Groundwater Pumping Allocations under California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
Type: Report
Date: August 27, 2018
This white paper provides water managers a a recommended approach to navigate one major dilemma of the new Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: how to re-allocate groundwater supplies when they can’t change Byzantine groundwater rights that date as far back as 1903.
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In this paper, Environmental Defense Fund proposes an approach for groundwater managers to address depletion of interconnected surface water – also known as “Undesirable Result No. 6” or the sixth “deadly sin” – under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
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EDF and Quantified Ventures investigate how environmental impact bonds can help make coastal communities more resilient to climate change.
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The Future of the Clean Development Mechanism under a New Regime of Higher Climate Ambition
Type: Report
Date: July 12, 2018
This paper discusses the environmental implications of using carbon credits from the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM) to meet requirements under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) and nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement.