Reports and publications

  • Missing methane: A European perspective

    Type: Report

    Date: July 18, 2024

    Building on EDF's November 2023 Missing Methane report, which explored the oil and gas methane disclosures and policies of the six largest US banks, this report assesses key European banks actively engaged in financing oil and gas. It analyses the methane disclosures and policies of Barclays, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Société Générale and UniCredit. It identifies best practices with respect to methane disclosures and target setting and makes recommendations for engagement with oil and gas clients.

  • U.S. oil & gas methane policy: An investor guide

    Type: Report

    Date: July 17, 2024

    This guide from EDF provides an overview of the methane regulatory landscape and examines a suite of new and revised rules that address oil and gas methane emissions and waste in the United States.

  • Cuba sits at the convergence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean. The largest of the Antillean chain, Cuba accounts for nearly half of the land mass of the Caribbean Islands. Stretching for 750 miles, Cuba supports diverse landscapes and seascapes and is the most important island in the region in terms of biodiversity.With more than 3,000 endemic vascular plant species, and more than 160 endemic animal species, Cuba is considered by many to be the “crown jewel of the Caribbean."

  • Coastal zone management manual (Spanish) [PDF]

    Type: Report

    Date: July 12, 2024

    Manual de legislación ambiental para la gestión de la zona costera de Cuba

  • Marine protected areas in Cuba [PDF]

    Type: Report

    Date: July 12, 2024

    This report gives an overview of Marine Protected Areas in Cuba. The coastal and marine protected areas in Cuba constitute a subsystem within the National System of Protected Areas.

  • Ecotourism in Cuba: A model for sustainable economic development

    Type: Column/Article

    Date: July 12, 2024

    With relations between the United States and Cuba defrosting and investment interest building for the island in the U.S. and beyond, Cuba is at a crossroads.

  • Coral reefs are some of the world’s most imperiled marine habitats.  Impacts from climate change, pollution, overfishing and resource extraction combine to threaten reefs all over the world.  This is especially true in the Caribbean, where rapid development is underway across the Caribbean Sea, exacerbating the stressors on coral reefs and their related seagrass and mangrove ecosystems.

  • A journey to Cuba's underwater Eden [PDF]

    Type: Report

    Date: July 12, 2024

    Ten days of Exploration in the Gardens of the Queen

  • US-Cuba Memorandum of understanding [PDF]

    Type: Letter

    Date: July 12, 2024

    JOINT STATEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA ON COOPERATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

  • JOINT STATEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ANDTHE REPUBLIC OF CUBA ON COOPERATION ON ENVIRONMENTALPROTECTION