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EDF hosts a panel of experts from around the world discussing green shipping after the coronavirus pandemic, including how to meet the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 2050 goal.

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.

It is more important than ever that the Government gives us the certainty that diesel has had its day. This means ending sales of diesel cars this decade – by 2030 – five years ahead of the proposed target.

EDF urges the EQB to advance the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) draft CO2 Budget Trading Program rule, a prudent, cost-effective, and common-sense approach to ensuring durable, real, and sustained carbon pollution reductions in the power sector.

EDF and Resources for the Future reviewed environmental policies that can support communities affected by the transition to a clean economy.

A new analysis by Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe), based on data from the Waze for Cities Programme, shows that traffic congestion is currently increasing in London and it is now worse than 2019 levels outside the city centre. The analysis examines data from May 2020 onwards.

EDF and other groups encourage U.S. House leadership to bring up a DOE innovation package.

This EDF report covers strategic policies that could unlock the wide range of benefits DERs can provide and make them more affordable and obtainable for more Texans.

EDF report on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a collaboration of ten Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states designed to lower carbon pollution from the power sector by placing a declining cap on greenhouse gas emissions.

List of publications on oil and gas methane facilitated by EDF.

EDF recommends that federal legislation to help the United State achieve net-zero climate pollution by 2050 lock in pollution reductions, grow the economy, and protect vulnerable populations. But what specifically should that look like?

EDF explains how climate change disproportionately hits African Americans and other communities of color.

New report from EDF details climate risks to the farm lending sector and provides a path for lenders to support a more resilient agricultural system.

Report details dangers of transportation pollution, benefits of zero emission vehicles

A new analysis by Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe) shows that air pollution created by diesel cars is higher at study locations in neighbourhoods outside the central London Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).

Methodology for new analysis that finds diesel car pollution is higher in neighbourhoods outside city centre. 

Hurricanes, floods, wildfires, heat waves and other catastrophic weather events pose safety, financial and health risks to families and communities.

Billion-dollar weather disasters fueled by climate change are becoming more frequent and more devastating to state and local economies.

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.

This report is the first in a series from EDF and Resources for the Future on ensuring fairness for fossil fuel workers and communities in the move to a clean economy.

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

Online shopping is at an all-time high, with total e-commerce spending in the U.S. hitting $82.5 billion, up 78% year-over-year. Are sites being transparent?