Financing Solutions for Slow Onset Climate Challenges: Drawing on Nature’s Untapped Potential
3 days 1 hour ago
While it may be convenient to place slow onset events like biodiversity loss on the backburner, financing climate solutions now is a more cost-effective approach in the long run. By embracing creative financial mechanisms and harnessing the power of nature-based approaches, we can pave the way for a more resilient tomorrow.
Juan Pablo Hoffmaister
How to improve soil modeling to maximize climate and farm benefits
1 week 2 days ago
Efforts to curb agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and increase soil carbon storage are picking up steam to help mitigate the impacts of climate change. To have maximum impact, we need ways to reliably quantify their outcomes. Direct measurement of the impacts of climate smart agricultural practices are imperative to instill confidence, but they aren’t forward-looking […]
Jocelyn Lavallee
Multilateral Development Banks Must Turn Words into Action on Climate Finance
3 weeks 3 days ago
Addressing our planet’s climate crisis requires commitment, cooperation, and urgency – all underpinned by finance. But our international financial systems were not designed for a challenge of this scale, and we are falling behind in meeting the needs of developing countries in combatting climate change.
Angela Churie Kallhauge
Strong scientific foundations, as well as strong science-based markets, make successful nature-based climate solutions possible
3 weeks 4 days ago
We need nature-based climate solutons to work. Yet as a recent study shows, questions remain on how we can achieve the best ground-level outcomes and maximize the enormous potential of these solutions to lower greenhouse gas concentrations.
Brian Buma
We need to close a mercury pollution loophole for lignite coal plants
4 weeks 1 day ago
(This post was co-authored by EDF attorney Richard Yates) The Environmental Protection Agency is soon expected to update our national protections against mercury and other toxic pollution from coal-fired power plants – pollution that is extremely dangerous to human health and has been linked to brain damage in children. EPA proposed strengthening the Mercury and […]
Jolie Villegas
Charting the path to equity: unveiling new Just Transition and Safeguards Framework
1 month ago
A new report from Environmental Defense Fund, ‘The Just Transition and Safeguards Framework’ offers a roadmap for countries and energy companies alike to successfully navigate the complexities of transitioning to clean energy while ensuring fairness and equity at every step of the way.
Mandy Rambharos
Governor Inslee moves Washington state one step closer to linking carbon market with California and Quebec
1 month 1 week ago
Today, the state of Washington took a big step toward linking its cap-and-invest program with the carbon markets in California and Quebec, a move that could boost climate action and create a more stable, more predictable market for all. Governor Inslee signed E2SB 6058 into law, which will further align Washington’s program with the joint […]
Caroline Jones
Cherry blossoms: a microcosm of the global climate crisis
1 month 2 weeks ago
(This blog was co-authored by EDF Climate Scientist Fiona Lo) Washington D.C.’s famous cherry blossoms are once again blooming earlier than expected. In fact, this year’s peak bloom occurred two and a half weeks earlier than the average over the past 100 years, due to near-record warm temperatures in March. This ranks as the second […]
Ilissa Ocko
How to act fast and smart (and where to move more cautiously) on nature-based climate solutions
1 month 3 weeks ago
This post is authored by Mark Moroge, Vice President of Natural Climate Solutions at Environmental Defense Fund. We know that nature-based climate solutions are among our greatest assets when it comes to tackling climate change. Conserving, restoring and improving the management of nature – alongside reductions in new fossil fuel use – can provide at […]
Mark Moroge
Resolving scientific uncertainties in nature-based climate solutions: Location, location, location
1 month 3 weeks ago
The world needs nature-based climate solutions (NbCS). These approaches use conservation, restoration, and management of natural and agricultural systems to retain existing, and sequester additional, carbon while reducing emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. NbCS have been suggested to meet 20-30% of the world’s climate goals. Correspondingly, nature-based actions are included in the national […]
Doria Gordon
Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement: What is High Integrity and Why It Matters
1 month 4 weeks ago
Under the Paris Agreement, Article 6.2 allows countries to exchange emissions reductions and removals through bilateral agreements—country to country. Despite stalled progress on final details for Article 6.2 at COP28, the mechanism is in operation with guardrails that push countries toward high-integrity programs. New bilateral agreements continue to emerge under the mechanism and mobilize needed […]
Pedro Martins Barata
Auction results and budget decisions emphasize importance of investments from Washington state’s Climate Commitment Act
1 month 4 weeks ago
This blog was co-authored by Janet Zamudio, Western States Climate Policy Intern The last week has been eventful in Washington, seeing the end of legislative session last Thursday and the first quarterly cap-and-invest auction of 2024, which posted results today. With the legislative session wrapped up and budgets passed, we now know what additional spending […]
Caroline Jones
Clean heat standards: an effective climate policy for the thermal sector
2 months ago
This post was co-authored by Chris Neme, Co-Founder and Principal of Energy Futures Group The concept of a Clean Heat Standard (CHS) is gaining traction in multiple jurisdictions as a way to drive larger, faster reductions in the thermal sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. At least ten U.S. states are considering the policy, with Colorado and […]
Jolette Westbrook
Building a greener future: How federal purchasing power can drive a low-carbon cement industry
2 months ago
This blog was co-authored by Dara Diamond, Federal Climate Innovation Intern Historic climate investments from the Biden administration have put a much-needed down payment toward cutting emissions from industry — a major economic sector that makes up over a quarter of U.S. emissions. Still, a lot of hard work remains to meaningfully scale up solutions […]
Akin Olumoroti
EDF’s new report looks at Non-Pipeline Alternatives to meet energy needs
2 months 2 weeks ago
(This post was written by EDF’s Magdalen Sullivan and Erin Murphy. It was originally posted here) Many states are adopting declining emission limits as a way to address the severe and growing dangers of the climate crisis, and that means state utility regulators are grappling with how to decarbonize energy systems, manage costs, and meet […]
EDF Blogs
As it enters its eleventh year, California’s cap-and-trade program continues to raise revenue to fight the climate crisis
2 months 2 weeks ago
This blog was co-authored by Katelyn Roedner Sutter, California State Director Results of the latest Western Climate Initiative auction were released today, and we continue to see strong demand for allowances. This was the first quarterly auction of 2024, and it was a strong start for this marquee climate program. This auction is expected to […]
Caroline Jones
Progress to catalyze jurisdictional REDD+
3 months 1 week ago
In the fight against the climate crisis, high-integrity jurisdictional REDD+ is intended to be transformational, giving forest communities and governments the ability to tap into the voluntary carbon market to access climate finance needed to ensure that large areas of tropical forests remain intact.
Angela Churie Kallhauge
Want to understand Natural Climate Solutions Crediting? We have a handbook for that.
3 months 1 week ago
Stakeholders across the climate space need urgent help to cut through the noise on natural climate solutions crediting. The NCS Crediting Handbook aims to meet this need by clearly laying out how high-quality NCS crediting can work—for credit sellers, for credit buyers, and as part of an effective and ethical global climate response.
Christine Gerbode
Centering community benefits and safeguards in a high-integrity carbon market: What is benefits-sharing, and why is it key to integrity?
3 months 1 week ago
A high-integrity carbon market can play a significant role in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. But carbon mitigation should not be the only ‘win’ that comes from the purchase of high-quality carbon credits. Benefits-sharing and social safeguards deliver the durability and longevity we need for any achieved emissions reductions.
Mandy Rambharos
Cut carbon, raise cash: How New York’s cap-and-invest program could invest billions in communities
3 months 2 weeks ago
In leading climate states, you’ll find trailblazing projects that are benefiting people’s lives and cutting costly pollution right now. In Washington, young people ride the ferry across Puget sound and buses around the state for free. In California, low-income residents get money-saving home energy efficiency upgrades at no cost. And in New York, businesses and […]
Kate Courtin
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