Reports and publications
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The summer of 2018 was one for the record books. Learn about EDF's efforts to confront climate change on a global level.
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The report’s recommendations and detailed guidance provide a valuable road map as companies work to demonstrate how they are managing methane emissions.
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As Washington caves on climate change and public health, states are rushing to fill the void.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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For decades, and in partnership with many other groups, Environmental Defense Fund has championed market-based solutions to environmental problems. Combining world-class analytical resources with a practical, hands-on approach, EDF has a strong track record designing and implementing markets at the international, national, state and provincial, and city levels. This timeline highlights market-based successes that EDF had a particular hand in.
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Global risk assessment of high nitrous oxide emissions from rice production
Type: Report
Date: September 10, 2018
In this white paper, we quantify the potential global risk of a large climate impact from N2O emissions from rice paddies globally through a geospatial extrapolation.