Reports and publications

  • How to Avoid Double Counting of Emissions Reductions

    Type: Fact Sheet

    Date: November 1, 2018

    This user-friendly handbook identifies eight existing or potential transfer scenarios that could lead to double counting of emissions reductions, cites the legal requirements relevant to the accounting of these transfers, and proposes the actions needed by participating entities to avoid double counting in each scenario.

  • This white paper summarizes four themes that emerged during a stakeholder dialogue convened by EDF, National Corn Growers Association and Farm Journal Foundation.

  • Smart modeling can help scale air pollution mapping

    Type: Report

    Date: October 25, 2018

  • Global climate change panel

    Type: Webinar

    Date: October 24, 2018

    The summer of 2018 was one for the record books. Learn about EDF's efforts to confront climate change on a global level.

  • Setting the bar on methane disclosure

    Type: Report

    Date: October 17, 2018

  • Setting the Bar

    Type: Report

    Date: October 16, 2018

    The report’s recommendations and detailed guidance provide a valuable road map as companies work to demonstrate how they are managing methane emissions.

  • Fall 2018: The new defenders

    Type: Solutions newsletter

    Date: October 1, 2018

    As Washington caves on climate change and public health, states are rushing to fill the void.

  • Climate change may lead to fish wars: here’s how to avoid them

    Type: Column/Article

    Date: September 27, 2018

    We have a chance to avoid one of the worst economic, environmental and social disasters we face from the impacts of climate change. Will we take it?

  • Western ranchers embrace satellites

    Type: Column/Article

    Date: September 20, 2018

    The goal was ambitious: use satellite technology to help save rapidly vanishing grasslands, introduce rare native species, lock tons of carbon in the soil and recruit a multinational company to help pay for it.

  • Deploying carbon markets to reach climate goals in US states

    Type: Fact Sheet

    Date: September 11, 2018

    Twenty U.S. states and the District of Columbia have set bold goals to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. This fact sheet highlights how well-designed carbon markets are critical tools in the policy toolbox to put states on track to meet their climate targets at low cost.