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How the finance community can drive the transition to a 100% clean economy

A Climate Team is a new cooperative mechanism composed of a small group of countries. Watch this Climate Week 2020 session where we discuss the possibilities, challenges and risks of developing this initiative.

EDF and other international experts discuss greening the economic stimulus in a post COVID-19 world.

EDF webinar on zero emissions trucks and the low carbon future. Learn how new initiatives will enable electrification and efficiency in the transportation sector by stimulating investment and reducing emissions, resulting in health and climate benefits.

The message is stark: Climate change poses serious risks that, if ignored, will undermine the financial system’s ability to support the American economy.

Flooding caused by these wetter, more intense storms is devastating lives and costing billions. Is there a way out?

The transition away from diesel-fueled trucks to 100% zero-emission trucks is coming, but it has to happen faster. Here's a look at how close we are.

Climate Week 2020 sets the stage for a crucial time for climate action.

The devastation we're seeing is largely a consequence of climate pollution produced by burning fossil fuels.

Access to voting is not a new issue for our country.

Wildfire smoke is one of many ways climate change is impacting public health.

15 years after Katrina and the need to restore Louisiana's wetlands has never been clearer.

In many fisheries, many species are caught at the same time. These are called multispecies fisheries, and the fact that they catch many species together, with the same gears, means that the different species are caught at the same rate. The trouble is, some species are productive enough to withstand high catches while others are …

Solutions are bubbling up from communities across Puerto Rico, which amid a global pandemic, is even more exposed than it was before Hurricane Maria.

This first report in a new joint research series by Environmental Defense Fund and Resources for the Future examines US federal economic development programs and policies that can revitalize communities that have been historically reliant on fossil fuels. Daniel Raimi, Wesley Look, Molly Robertson of RFF and Jake Higdon of EDF contributed to the report described in this blog post.

Data is driving action to curb methane pollution, even as the Trump administration seeks to roll back federal methane safeguards.

Here are the companies rising to the challenge and responding to stakeholder demands for environmental, social and governance (ESG) leadership.

Around the world, we’ve seen dramatic improvement in air quality as a result of the response to COVID-19. While it’s come from an artificial and unwanted brake on the global economy, it’s drawn renewed attention to the devastating impacts of outdoor air pollution.

What our economists want you to know about the costs of climate change.

COVID-19 and deforestation of Indigenous territories are threatening one of the greatest advances for climate and human rights of the last century.

Climate pollution is making heat waves longer, hotter and more frequent.

Tomorrow the House Appropriations Committee will vote on its FY 2021 Interior-Environment appropriations proposal,.

Clean Energy Innovation and Deployment Act is a Valuable Addition to Climate Change Debate

The summer of 2020. What will we make of it?

Today the House of Representatives voted to pass a major job-creating, national infrastructure bill