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Tackling Transferred Emissions: Climate Principles for Oil and Gas Mergers and Acquisitions
While transactions in the oil and gas industry can increase reputational, climate, and transition risks, they also present opportunities for industry players to lead on creating a new paradigm for oil and gas transactions that is more compatible with global net zero goals. A new report from EDF and Ceres outlines ways to take advantage of these opportunities.More on:
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What Is Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal?
All future climate scenarios that hold planetary warming close to 1.5 °C by 2050 will require massive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, supplemented by the use of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods to clean up leftover heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.More on:
Sub-seafloor Geologic Storage of Captured CO2
Carbon dioxide can be permanently stored under the seabed in geologic reservoirs.More on:
Ocean Fertilization
Marine plants and algae, like phytoplankton, take up CO2 during photosynthesis, and this can increase the ocean’s uptake of atmospheric CO2.More on:
Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Methods
This booklet from EDF and partners provides a primer on various ocean CDR strategies, summarizing the theory behind each technique, the current state of knowledge of their carbon storage potential and associated costs, technical readiness, and potential environmental and social impacts.More on:
Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), also termed enhanced weathering (EW), aims to alter seawater chemistry, usually by spreading finely ground alkaline minerals like silicates and carbonates in seawater or on coastal lands.More on:
Electrochemical Ocean-Based CDR Methods
Electricity can be used to remove carbon dioxide from seawater by driving well-understood chemical reactions that either liberate carbon dioxide gas from the seawater for capture and sequestration, or alter seawater’s chemical balances to enable it to store more CO2 than it naturally would.More on:
Blue Carbon: At a Glance
“Blue carbon” methods are a wide-ranging category of nature-based climate solutions that aim to preserve or enhance the ocean’s natural CO2 capture and storage capacity by protecting, restoring, or better managing specific ocean ecosystems.More on:
BLOG POSTDanone commits to cutting dairy methane in partnership with farmers and EDF
This announcement builds on past successes, with a plan to accelerate action in the years to come.More on:
BLOG POSTDOE has a big opportunity to decarbonize industry. Here’s how it can leverage a new program.
The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) is the new DOE office with $20B from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act with a focus on scaling up emerging technologies through demonstration projects. EDF offers pointers to help OCED have catalytic impact.More on:
BLOG POSTStrategies and Principles to Decarbonize Your Local Gas Utility
What will it take to decarbonize the gas distribution system? EDF and partners produced a new report setting out guiding principles and strategies to inform decarbonization of the gas utility and corresponding end uses.More on:
BLOG POSTMinnesotans are ready for state lawmakers to take bold climate action
A recent poll, commissioned by EDF Action and conducted by Global Strategy Group, found broad support among majorities of Minnesotans for ambitious climate policies.More on:
BLOG POSTBanking Regulators Take Critical Steps to Account for Climate-Related Financial Risks
The Institute for Policy Integrity and Environmental Defense Fund submitted joint comments supporting guidance documents as important steps toward addressing the risks that climate change poses to the structural integrity of our financial system.More on:
BLOG POSTHouston workshop lays foundation for the road to ZEV trucks
Last month, EDF co-hosted a workshop in Houston on the state of zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles in Texas. Partnering with Evolve, the Houston-Galveston Area Council and Port Houston, we met at the NRG Center with dozens of industry experts, government officials, fleet managers and drivers to talk about the economic and environmental opportunities that transitioning to […]More on:
BLOG POSTEDF Climate Corps Launches Food and Agriculture Pilot Program
Food and agriculture is a significant contributor to climate change, emitting a whopping 30% of global emissions. That’s why EDF’s Climate Corps graduate fellowship program is launching the Animal Agriculture pilot program during the summer of 2023.More on:
VIDEOWatch: EDF China launches air quality mobile monitoring challenge
Video on how EDF China’s Mobile Monitoring Challenge tested multiple technologies to drive air quality solutions.More on:
VIDEOWatch: How markets can reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly
EDF China video on how using carbon markets can help cut greenhouse gas pollution while providing an economic lifeline for the people and communities most at risk.More on:
BLOG POSTHow companies can reduce nitrogen pollution and measure progress toward climate goals
Nitrogen is essential for life, but excess nitrogen can pollute the atmosphere and water. EDF's new N Balance Implementation Guide provides a road map for food and agriculture companies to help reduce nitrogen pollution from agricultural production and claim the environmental improvements associated with nitrogen management.More on:
ARTICLEMeet the young leaders making a career out of saving the planet
For 15 years, EDF's Climate Corps program has embedded ambitious graduate students at top-tier companies and organizations. Now they are successful sustainability leaders across the globe.More on:
BLOG POST4 lies about the Inflation Reduction Act — and how we can fight them
Misinformation hacks your brain. Here's how you can fight for the truth, starting with the most significant climate law Congress has ever passed.More on:
BLOG POSTKey things we learned from studying methane in the nation’s largest oilfield
By Ben Hmiel and Jon Goldstein After three years of actively collecting methane emissions data in the Permian Basin, researchers have gained new insights that will make it easier to reduce emissions of the incredibly potent greenhouse gas methane. These insights are helping inform state and federal regulatory approaches at a critical time. Download the […]More on:
REPORTPermianMAP Final Report
After three years of actively collecting methane emissions data in the Permian Basin, EDF researchers have gained new insights that will make it easier to reduce emissions of the incredibly potent greenhouse gas methane.More on: