Reports and publications

  • Challenge, opportunity as China begins to tackle fossil fuel methane emissions

  • This female scientist ignored the doubters. Good for us.

    Type: Column/Article

    Date: March 7, 2019

  • Reactivating Our Floodplains

    Type: Fact Sheet

    Date: March 6, 2019

    A two-page document by EDF and numerous partners on how the Sacramento Valley is fertile ground for developing a new path forward for holistic water management that reactivates the floodplain to result in multiple benefits for farmers and wildlife.

  • Smart Boats and Networked Fisheries

    Type: Report

    Date: March 5, 2019

    New technologies cannot themselves fix the fisheries crisis that we face. But as EDF lays out in this report, they do open an unprecedented window of opportunity to dramatically broaden access to the fishery management approaches that have been proven to work.

  • The window of opportunity to combat climate change has not closed. A decade of extraordinary innovation has made the greening of the global economy not only feasible but also likely. But we’re going to need negative emission technologies, or NETs, to make it happen.

  • EDF ready to go into space

    Type: Report

    Date: March 1, 2019

    An interview with Mark Brownstein on MethaneSAT.

  • Can New York reinvent urban transit?

    Type: Podcast

    Date: February 28, 2019

    Learn how New York City could modernize transit for faster commutes & reduced greenhouse gases. EDF Engage is hosted by Miriam Horn. This episode was recorded on February 28, 2019.

  • How Smithfield achieved its grain sustainability goal

    Type: Report

    Date: February 22, 2019

  • Bad carbon credits could derail UN aviation climate agreement

    Type: Fact Sheet

    Date: February 21, 2019

    As ICAO finalizes CORSIA rules, policy-makers must move swiftly to bar bad carbon offsets. They must ensure that carbon offsets represent real emission reductions, are not double counted, and have host country approval. If bad credits are allowed in CORSIA—whether from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) or other offset programs—airlines’ net emissions will grow and climate change will be worse.

  • CEOs need to fill the leadership void on climate policy

    Type: Column/Article

    Date: February 21, 2019

    Business leaders know it’s no longer enough to simply post their company values online. CEOs need to publicly and visibly put those values to work because investors, employees, and customers now demand it.