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At EDF, the Office of Community Collaboration and Engagement works to support local leaders and organizations to access historic federal funding, improve the health and safety of communities and create a climate action plan.

EDF report on a project aimed to develop a baseline knowledge through interviews and focus groups on how rural communities perceive clean energy technologies and innovations, and who they trust to bring these investments into their communities.

This blog was co-authored by Dr. Grace Tee Lewis, Senior Health Scientist, Climate and Health Last month, Environmental Defense Fund and Texas A&M University published a new study that found all states in the U.S. are at risk from the effects of climate change, particularly neighborhoods experiencing disproportionate environmental harms and risks, health disparities and …

This storytelling experience from EDF features interviews with more than a dozen residents and experts, historic images and contemporary photos, maps and scientific diagrams, and an extensive narrative laying out the springs’ past and present — as well as the critical collaborative efforts of researchers, landowners, and local community who are working to protect its future.

Watch Bill Nye The Science Guy explain in his funny, smart way what methane is and how cutting emissions can be an effective climate change solution.

This blog is co-authored by Dan Mueller, Senior Manager, Climate Resilient Water Systems, Environmental Defense Fund San Solomon Springs is a Texas icon. It’s also a beacon of both caution and opportunity in sustaining Texas’s groundwater resources and the springs and streams that depend on them. The springs — located in the Chihuahuan Desert, near …

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) is working on global thresholds for carbon credit and program quality to ensure that the voluntary carbon market accelerates a just transition to 1.5C. 

This report from Environmental Defense Fund and WSP USA summarizes the significant investments in the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem that have been announced over the past 8 years. This includes announced investments in EV, EV battery, and battery component manufacturing.

This blog was authored by Environmental Defense Fund economist Luis Fernández Intriago and Universidad de Los Andes professors Jorge García López and Julián Gómez Gil. The saying “Nothing about us without us” is widely used among Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to emphasize the importance of involving them in policies that govern their territories and …

In 2022 and 2023, EDF and Deloitte published two reports that focused on climate change impacts on agriculture finance institutions.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and other national policies have catalyzed already thriving investments in electric vehicle manufacturing in the U.S., according to a new report by Environmental Defense Fund and WSP USA.

This resource from EDF uses a set of core objectives to help governments, companies, investors, and local communities design and engage with decarbonization hub projects in a way that sets a new bar for industrial innovation.

Based on the status quo of climate-related information disclosure within China, this paper proposes suggestions for climate-related information disclosure for key emission industries and financial institutions to provide relevant references for climate-related information disclosure in China.

This report analyzes the experience and characteristics of carbon market information disclosure in China, the European Union (EU), and the U.S., and puts forward relevant policy recommendations from the aspects of the standard system, disclosure platform, capacity building, and supervision and management under the current situation and challenges.

Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund have launched a new website to compile all climate change-related provisions in the IRA and allow users to search for more information about them.

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund have just launched IRAtracker.org. This free online resource includes a searchable database that catalogues all of the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as well as a tracker that records actions taken by federal agencies to implement those provisions.

Hydrogen fact and fiction in Glass Onion

In this report, EDF establishes best practices for investors and companies seeking to credibly and quickly address methane emissions.

New research from Environmental Defense Fund provides a high-level overview of how four technology fields can be valuable tools in agricultural operations and contribute to agroecological goals.

In this EDF report, we discuss the science of methane management and its importance to the energy transition; provide background on methane emissions from the oil and gas supply chain; highlight the pressing data challenge; identify impactful technical solutions; review key global policy developments; and supply investors with critical asks for the industry.

This EDF report examines the intersection between agriculture, technology, the environment and society, particularly how these areas can support and enhance one another.

EDF research published in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that food production, distribution and consumption could still add around 1°C to planetary warming by 2100 — and, in turn, risk exceeding the internationally agreed-upon temperature targets for a climate-secure future.

A new climate law offers a big boost to sustainable aviation fuels – but the details matter. The Biden administration must avoid subsidizing fuels whose production would do more harm to than good.

Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)

Proposed revisions to JREDD+ components of IC-VCM Assessment Framework on Additionality and Permanence