Reports and publications
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Report published by Environmental Defense Fund takes lessons learned from rising adoption of electric trucks across industries and compiles them into a guide that can help fleets explore their power resiliency needs and the back-up power solutions available to them.
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Issue Brief: The Role of Fuel Costs in Duke Energy’s North Carolina’s Retail Rates From 2017 Through March 2024
Type: Report
Date: April 18, 2024
This Issue Brief illustrates the increasing role that fuel costs, principally natural gas costs, have played in electric rate increases on residential customers in the North Carolina service territories of Duke Energy Carolinas (DEC) and Duke Energy Progress (DEP) during recent years (2017-Q1 2024).
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Report produced by EDF provides guidelines for developing strategies, plans, measures and metrics that will ensure a fair and equitable transition towards cleaner energy sources. It also provides guidance on how to measure whether activities uphold decarbonization benefits, environmental rights and the interests of impacted stakeholders, including Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.
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Strategic roadmaps for SBTi forest, land, & agriculture targets: Prioritizing action for impact
Type: Report
Date: April 8, 2024
Report from EDF and Deloitte examines the role of key greenhouse gases, identifies primary drivers of emissions, and recommends potential abatement solutions for six primary Forest, Land, and Agriculture (FLAG commodities – beef, dairy, chicken, corn, soy, and wheat in an effort to help companies develop plans to work towards achieving the target reductions.
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El Programa de Reutilización de Tierras con Múltiples Beneficios (MLRP, por sus siglas en inglés) aumenta la capacidad regional para reutilizar tierras agrícolas de riego para usos que reduzcan la dependencia de las aguas subterráneas y proporcionen, al mismo tiempo, beneficios para la salud de la comunidad, bienestar económico, suministro de agua, hábitat, energía renovable y beneficios climáticos. El programa proporciona fondos para subvenciones regionales en bloque, subvenciones a tribus y una Entidad de Apoyo Estatal para brindar asistencia técnica a los beneficiarios en bloque y apoyar el progreso hacia los objetivos del programa.
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Expert review of the science underlying nature-based climate solutions
Type: Report
Date: March 21, 2024
Study based on research conducted at institutions including Environmental Defense Fund, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and Columbia University, assessed whether 43 nature-based climate-solutions (NbCS) are based on sufficiently strong scientific evidence to support solutions like high-quality carbon crediting.
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Shared Duty: National, International Oil Companies Bound Together by Methane Obligations
Type: Report
Date: March 21, 2024
This EDF paper addresses the critical nature of national oil companies (NOCs) and the IOC's non-operated joint ventures (NOJVs) and how, together, they can accelerate industry’s methane momentum.
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Financing methane abatement: Report on sustainable finance instruments
Type: Report
Date: March 20, 2024
EDF report offers an introduction to sustainable finance for methane abatement.
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This investor guide from EDF provides the financial sector with an overview of the rule and its key components, summarize the implications of the rule for investors, put the rule into context with other international frameworks, and map out next steps towards implementation of the rule.
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Recent EV manufacturing investments in the U.S. are outpacing every other region
Type: Report
Date: March 14, 2024
The growth in electric vehicle (EV) sales globally and the expectation of continued growth has led to huge investments in EV manufacturing and battery manufacturing around the world. Using data from Atlas Public Policy’s Global Private Investment Dashboard, EDF tallied EV and battery manufacturing investments in key regions of the world to see what trends can be observed.