Reports and publications

New analysis from Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Rural Beacon Initiative (RBI) shows that joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) can be an integral tool for North Carolina to cost-effectively reduce emissions and meet the state’s carbon reduction goals.

This policy brief quantifies the size of the opportunity from reducing deforestation in the Legal Amazon in U.S. dollars, and provides a roadmap of policy and regulatory changes, and actions, required to seize this opportunity.

Report from Trove Research, supported by  Environmental Defense Fund, shows that growing corporate demand for carbon credits could aid tropical forest countries in achieving their national climate obligations.

EDF fact sheet: Building a Resilient Puerto Rico

Our oceans face increasing threats. EDF is helping fishers fight climate change and preserve vital food supplies for billions.

A new study proposed by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities is infected with methodological flaws and faulty assumptions that would put it out of step with the state’s energy and climate policy.

As we embark this year on the United Nations Ocean Decade, you may be hearing quite a bit about blue carbon. But what is it, and why is it so important for the future of our planet?

EDF experts at North American American Carbon World 2022

EDF guide to blue carbon, the carbon stored in ocean waters and the sediments and plants of coastal habitats.

Recently, there has been a great deal of interest and even excitement about how seaweed might be able to help save us from climate change.