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Angela Churie Kallhauge, head of impact at Environmental Defense Fund, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the biggest climate conference of the year.

EDF statement from Kate Boicourt

An earlier version of this options paper was published in October 2021, prior to COP 26. This is an updated version reflecting the developments under ongoing UNFCCC processes.

Methane submission to Global Stocktake

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) provides input on how to achieve the objectives referred to in paragraph 7 of the Glasgow–Sharm el-Sheikh work programme on the global goal on adaptation (GLaSS) (7/CMA.3).

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions present their perspectives on future topics not listed in decision 4/CP.23 and views on the progress of the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA)

Submission for the Information Collection and Preparation (ICP) Component of the Global Stocktake (GST), jointly prepared by Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, and The Nature Conservancy

Joint inputs on the work programme on the framework for non-market approaches under Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement

EDF’s Climate Tech Convening San Francisco brings together leading investors, forward -thinking corporate stakeholders, innovative startups and industry thought leaders.

In 2022, EDF and Deloitte conducted a survey of finance institutions serving the agriculture sector in North America, Europe and India to measure the climate change perceptions, actions and challenges at agricultural finance institutions. This report aims to understand how climate change is perceived by agricultural finance institutions and how they are responding.

New York State passes the historic Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022 (Proposal One). The post EDF Celebrates the Passing of the NY Bond Act. first appeared on Growing Returns.

Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp – November 9, 2022

Heather McTeer Toney is leading a movement to make sure that the millions of green jobs of the future go to everyone. After you listen to this episode of EDF's Degrees, you’ll see opportunities you never imagined.

As climate change threatens agricultural production around the world, the agricultural finance institutions that work with farmers also face growing risk to their businesses — as well as untapped opportunities to help farmers prepare for climate impacts. A new report — The Impacts of Climate Change on Agricultural Finance — conducted by Environmental Defense Fund …

This global survey is the first of its kind to measure the climate change perceptions, actions and challenges at agricultural finance institutions. This survey reveals that many institutions are alert to the risks and opportunities inherent to climate change, but need greater support to take action.

Human composting is the environmentally friendly new trend in death care, especially for young people planning for their future.

The United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities issued at COP27 addressing net-zero commitments by non-State actors, particularly businesses, financial institutions, and municipalities. EDF underscores: To keep the 1.5 degree goal within reach, we need integrity. We can’t reach our climate targets without including carbon credits, and we can’t have effective credits without integrity.  

Human composting is the environmentally friendly new trend in death care, especially for young people planning for their future. 

New science has made it clear that life on Earth may well depend upon the startlingly strange and interesting organisms that live in the oceans’ twilight zone and that we must act now to protect it.

Looking to the oceans for answers to the climate crisis.

This is one of three reports produced by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) ocean science team as part of a two-year EDF project on natural climate solutions (NCS). The present report attempts to describe the state of the science, including key uncertainties, surrounding interventions based on macroalgal ecosystems and aquaculture.

This is one of three reports produced by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) ocean science team as part of a two-year EDF project on natural climate solutions (NCS). The present report attempts to describe the state of the science, including key uncertainties, surrounding interventions based on restoring and protecting coastal blue carbon ecosystems.

This is one of three reports produced by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) ocean science team as part of a two-year EDF project on natural climate solutions (NCS). The present report attempts to describe the state of the science, including key uncertainties, surrounding interventions based on open ocean ecosystems.

EDF announced Pedro Martins Barata as its new Associate Vice President for Carbon Markets and Private Sector Decarbonization.

Between setting goals and disclosing progress, it is critical that companies develop a CTAP to ensure their targets are achieved. As partners who work to accelerate corporate action on climate change, We Mean Business Coalition, CDP, Ceres and Environmental Defense Fund have come together to help companies address their climate impacts by defining what should be in a CTAP.