Reports and publications

  • CEOs need to fill the leadership void on climate policy

    Type: Column/Article

    Date: February 21, 2019

    Business leaders know it’s no longer enough to simply post their company values online. CEOs need to publicly and visibly put those values to work because investors, employees, and customers now demand it.

  • Bad carbon credits could derail UN aviation climate agreement

    Type: Fact Sheet

    Date: February 21, 2019

    As ICAO finalizes CORSIA rules, policy-makers must move swiftly to bar bad carbon offsets. They must ensure that carbon offsets represent real emission reductions, are not double counted, and have host country approval. If bad credits are allowed in CORSIA—whether from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) or other offset programs—airlines’ net emissions will grow and climate change will be worse.

  • Osprey Legacy Society

    Type: Webinar

    Date: February 20, 2019

    Plastics are convenient, cheap and durable - they also pose serious threats to our environment.

  • Colorado Near-Term Policy Advising

    Type: Report

    Date: February 19, 2019

    This whitepaper from Evolved Energy Research builds on previous EDF analysis, which examines the current and future carbon inventories for the state of Colorado, addressing two topics: wedge analysis & potential policy levers, and carbon policy discussion.

  • Recovering monarch butterfly populations before it’s too late.

    Type: Column/Article

    Date: February 18, 2019

    An interview with Rural Radio Network

  • We urged the office to ensure the ban on methylene chloride-based paint and coating removers covers both consumer and most commercial uses – as the agency originally proposed.

  • This EDF report provides a comprehensive comparison of supply chain tracking tools for tropical forest commodities, specifically cattle, soy and timber, currently being used in Brazil. We describe the advantages and challenges of each system, and conclude with a comprehensive comparison.

  • Knowledge & Network reception

    Type: Podcast

    Date: January 31, 2019

    Learn about the growing signs of climate change, its adverse impacts, and what EDF and others are doing in response.

  • Oil and gas enters the digital era

    Type: Report

    Date: January 25, 2019

  • How reverse auctions can help scale energy storage

    Type: Column/Article

    Date: January 24, 2019

    Just as reverse auctions have helped increase renewable energy capacity, they could also be an effective approach for scaling energy storage