Reports and publications
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Linking Inclusive Finance with Inclusive Insurance in the United States Through Community Development Financial Institutions
Type: Report
Date: October 12, 2022
In this report, EDF and partners examine the financing challenges that small businesses in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities face after a disaster. We suggest two innovative risk transfer models to improve the recovery of small businesses in disadvantaged areas from weather-related extremes, with spillover benefits for their broader communities.
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Climate change promises a stormier future. Ten years after Sandy, New York and New Jersey are still seeking innovative ways to live with water.
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How to stop worrying about gas prices for good: Act quickly to fully decarbonize the economy
Type: Column/Article
Date: October 10, 2022
This past summer, Californians have been hit hard by inflation: rising food costs, utility bills and nowhere more obviously than at the gas pump. The cost to fill up a tank has many potential causes and lots of experts are weighing in.
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Ambitious Climate Mitigation Pathways for U.S. Agriculture and Forestry: Vision for 2030
Type: Report
Date: September 21, 2022
This EDF report provides the first set of science-based targets for annual emission reductions from U.S. farms, ranches and forests.
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This issue focuses on India, where fighting climate change not only presents unique challenges, it has sparked an exciting wave of entrepreneurship and innovation.
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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.
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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.
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Financial opportunities for Brazil from reducing deforestation in the Amazon
Type: Report
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
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.