Reports and publications

  • Clean energy pioneers

    Type: Report

    Date: June 23, 2010

    Profiles of the people, businesses and communities across the Intermountain West who are forging clean energy progress through innovation and determin

  • Climate Corps Public Sector

    Type: Information about EDF

    Date: June 1, 2010

    Many obstacles prevent the public sector from taking advantage of smart energy investments. Environmental Defense Fund can help.

  • Three reasons for REDD

    Type: Fact Sheet

    Date: April 1, 2010

    Summary of the necessity of REDD in curbing greenhouse gas emissions and preserving indigenous forest peoples' traditional lifestyles. This two-page f

  • Securing a Gold Standard for Equity

    Type: Report

    Date: April 1, 2010

    Under Assembly Bill (AB) 32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act a cap and trade framework is being developed to enable for large sources of emissions.

  • Diagram of Carbon Credits for Reduced Deforestation (REDD)

    Type: Fact Sheet

    Date: March 1, 2010

    See step-by-step how carbon credits for reduced deforestation are created, financed, verified, purchased, and ultimately provide sustainable economic

  • REDD initiatives around the world

    Type: Fact Sheet

    Date: March 1, 2010

    Support for REDD is gaining traction in national and sub-national climate change policy in developed and developing countries. This map highlights sev

  • Solutions Spring 2010

    Type: Newsletter

    Date: March 1, 2010

    In this issue: EDF redoubles efforts to save Gulf wetlands, Risky Business: Tampering with the Earth's Climate, U.S. and Brazil sign pact on rainfores

  • Solutions Winter 2010

    Type: Newsletter

    Date: January 1, 2010

    In this issue: Global warming's evil twin; A truce in California's water wars; "Why I'm Outraged About Toxic Chemicals;" smart grids offer a new world

  • Tailored Mass Transit 2009

    Type: Newsletter

    Date: December 29, 2009

    Mass transit for California's 21st Century.

  • EPA Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gas Pollution

    Type: Fact Sheet

    Date: December 20, 2009

    The EPA determined that greenhouse gas emissions endanger the public health and welfare of current and future generations.