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EDF’s Kelley Kizzier, a seasoned veteran of the UN climate talks, gives the lowdown on COP and what needs to happen there in November 2021.

As the latest IPCC climate report shows, global and business leaders must take action ASAP to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. This is our moment to be fearless and fight to create the change we need to protect our people and our planet.

EDF Statement from Katelyn Roedner Sutter, Senior Manager for U.S. Climate

EPA is preparing to release proposed rules to cut oil and gas methane pollution from both new and existing facilities — one of the most critical and cost-effective actions we can take to immediately slow the rate of global warming and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Recognizing the importance of this opportunity, yesterday,

EDF statement from Katelyn Roedner Sutter, Senior Manager for U.S. Climate

The Understanding Packaging (UP) Scorecard is a tool that measures food packaging materials to provide companies with the information needed to make sustainable purchasing decisions.

How policymakers and coastal planners can expand access to flood protection and achieve more equitable results for coastal communities. The post 5 ways federal policymakers can bring equity into flood risk reduction first appeared on Growing Returns.

Episode 2 | Green jobs are surging. Where to find them. After years of sputtering along, sustainability job postings on LinkedIn spiked by 10%, about double the growth in other sectors of the economy. But where are these jobs? And which skills are in demand? One of the foremost researchers studying the growth of corporate …

Heather McTeer Toney — an attorney, former mayor, EPA regional administrator under President Obama, and senior director at EDF affiliate Moms Clean Air Force — tells EDF about her path to environmental activism.

Feeling overwhelmed? Sustainability jobs expert Trish Kenlon has advised hundreds of job hunters.

The new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the direst warning yet that we must rapidly and drastically slash climate emissions around the world and that reducing methane emissions is mission critical. Though the report includes some important opportunities, it’s a very sober read. Let’s get some of the central …

EDF interviewed 8 Gen Z and Millennial stars tackling climate change head-on with their environmental careers. Read more here.

EDF President Fred Krupp argues that electric power companies need to have a clear compliance obligation that ensures clean electricity will be deployed, and climate and local air pollution will be slashed. It’s the requirement itself that sets this type of policy apart from strategies that purely incentivize companies with payments – it’s what makes the CES a “standard.”

For the first time in IPCC history, the assessment dedicates an entire chapter to short-lived climate pollutants, casting a spotlight on methane – the reduction of which would have immediate climate benefits, argues EDF President Fred Krupp.

Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp – August 5, 2021

To avoid a future where the health impacts of wildfires become even more devastating, we must take action on climate change now.

EDF's Summer 2021 Solutions newsletter spotlights eight rising stars making strides toward a sustainable tomorrow.

EDF and Legal & General Investment Management America have announced a partnership to raise the bar for climate leadership.

With a record drought depleting rivers and reservoirs, wildfires burning across the Western U.S., historic floods in Germany and China, landslides in Japan, and my own notoriously wet and dreary hometown of Portland, Oregon hitting 115 degrees recently, it’s hard to avoid thinking about climate change. But while the terrestrial impacts are wide-ranging and obvious,

Statement of EDF Associate Vice President Peter Zalzal

EDF statement from Eric Schwaab, Senior Vice President, Ecosystems and Oceans

New recommendations for how insurance can address climate risk — including supporting nature-based climate solutions and building community resilience. The post First-of-its-kind insurance report confronts climate risk first appeared on Growing Returns.

This is the first in a series of Global Clean Air blogs on COVID-19 and air pollution. EDF's Dr. Elena Craft examines how the pandemic is bringing into sharp focus the unacceptable health inequities in communities of color and low wealth across the nation.