This week’s good climate news

With so much still to do to slow warming and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it’s important to fortify ourselves by celebrating wins along the way.

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A beaver swims in water dragging along sticks to make a dam

The best dam plan

California's Department of Fish and Wildlife is turning to an unlikely new helper in the fight against wildfires: the beaver. Its new program will help restore beaver habitats in order to utilize the beaver's dam making abilities to help create natural firebreaks.

“It might be odd, but beavers are an untapped, creative climate solving hero,” according to the “beaver believers” at the Department of Fish and Wildlife. 

A blue sky with some puffy clouds

Global partnership launched to improve air quality

“Air pollution knows no geographic boundaries,” says EDF executive director, Amanda Leland.

This World Clean Air Day we announced a new partnership with United Nations Environment Programme to improve air quality and advance global health and climate goals in 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries. EDF and UNEP will co-host a workshop on air quality in Bogotá, Colombia on Oct. 5-6.

An electric car charging at a charging station

Electric Jeeps coming soon

Jeep wants to become the world’s top zero-emissions SUV brand and in the next two years, its first all-electric SUVs are coming to Europe and North America. The new vehicles are part of the automaker’s goals to convert half of its U.S. sales and all of its sales in Europe to battery-electric vehicles by 2030.

The four different electric models should be available by the end of 2025.

Three caribou grazing in the wilderness

Caribou on the comeback in British Columbia

British Columbia’s caribou have long been threatened by predators and logging, but an Indigenous-led effort wants to see these animals thrive. With the help of maternity pens and members of the First Nations watching over the animals, this herd has since tripled from 36 to 135 animals.

The maternity pens have a survival rate for newborn calves of 60%, which is double the rate for calves born in the wild.

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