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EDF and IAC leading a study to understand the financial, soil and animal health impacts of regenerative agriculture practices on Native farming.

EDF highlights businesses that are advancing steps toward reducing their GHG emissions while building profitable businesses in a series of interviews.

Environmental Defense Fund analysis of climate-smart investments in U.S. row crops unearths strategic opportunities for the private sector to accelerate climate action and future-proof agricultural supply chains.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Holds Oral Argument on the Standards Today - Statement of EDF General Counsel Vickie Patton

Rosa Inguanzo is uniting her central California community to call for clean water.

Ashoka-EDF Climate Corps Fellowship is a fellowship program that trains professionals with leading organizations to accelerate climate action.

With anticipated environmental rollbacks at the federal level, the U.S. needs states to act on climate in order to make progress towards the nation’s 2030 commitments. Luckily, there are already signs of momentum. A landslide victory in Washington state to protect its climate law sends a hopeful message that ambitious climate action at the state …

These devastating disasters underscore the need and urgency to build resilience and ensure preparedness ahead of future storms. Florida leaders have made great progress this year to better protect residents, but there is still a lot of work to be done. Let’s look back at Florida’s 2024 progress and consider new initiatives to prepare for the next storm.  The post How Florida built resilience this hurricane season and what can be done to prepare for future storms first appeared on Growing Returns.

Results were released today for California’s fourth cap-and-trade auction of the year, which was administered last week by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Auction prices in the joint California-Quebec market (known as the Western Climate Initiative, or WCI) have trended downward this year, reflecting growing uncertainty among market participants about how best to plan …

By: Aubrey Taylor Tropical Storm Oscar crept up from the North Atlantic Ocean at a leisurely 40 miles per hour on the morning of Oct. 19, 2024 and ambled toward the Turks and Caicos Islands. Based on the data available, meteorologists believed the tiny storm was unlikely to cause major damage. Yet only three hours …

Here's what the UN’s annual climate conference, COP29, delivered — and what’s still needed. 

America’s farms and food are on the frontlines of more extreme weather. We owe it to farmers, ranchers and families to make food production more resilient.

By Nini Gu Data recently collected by EDF’s MethaneAIR project in 2023 reveals a striking difference in the emissions profiles between the two major Colorado basins: the Denver-Julesburg (D-J) in the east, and the Piceance in the west. The D-J Basin exhibited a 1.7% methane loss rate from the total natural gas produced; by contrast,

By: Jane Eisenhardt Wrapping up Baku and the message for business is clear: we are officially in the era of implementation.   Over the past four years, a growing wave of companies, cities, states and financial institutions made ambitious climate commitments. Since COP26 in Glasgow, over 15,500 entities committed to net zero through the Race to …

The outcome falls well below expectations of developing countries. It will be essential to rebuild the trust and engagement required for climate action.

After four years of stalled negotiations, COP29 has delivered a breakthrough on Article 6.

Russ Vought Nominated for Office of Management and Budget Director

By Pedro Piris-Cabezas and Glenda Chen The adoption of electricity-based synthetic fuels, also known as e-fuels, will be essential for any hard-to-decarbonize sector with a stake in a resilient liquid fuels market. Chief among them is aviation. E-fuels offer promising new routes nearing commercialization. However, a primary barrier to adoption has been the current cost …

This post was authored by Bärbel Henneberger, Senior Partnerships Manager at the Environmental Defense Fund.  On November 21, COP29 celebrated Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP and LCs) as a thematic day in the Action Agenda of the Azerbaijani COP presidency. The day underscored the essential role of IP and LCs in safeguarding 80% of …

The West-Wide Government Pathways Initiative Launch Committee today approved its Proposal to create a more robust western energy market.

Proposal would protect people from air pollution linked to premature deaths and other serious health problems.

Statement from Andy Darrell, Senior Advisor, Environmental Defense Fund

With second Trump term looming, advocates, state and local officials, businesses and other nations will defend climate progress.

A new consensus on forests from the world’s leading carbon market governing body marks a significant turning point for voluntary carbon market buyers.

By: M. Khazali, Andi Yasser Fauzan, and Meutia Isty Wulandari  The Government of Indonesia has committed to protect its marine ecosystems, pledging to establish 32.5 million hectares of marine protected areas (MPAs) by 2030. This commitment supports the 30×30 target of the Global Biodiversity Framework, which aims to protect 30% of the world’s marine areas …