Environmental Defense Fund - Building a vital Earth for everyone
Our vision: A vital Earth. For everyone. For more than 50 years, we have been building innovative solutions to the biggest environmental challenges — from soil to space. Guided by science and economics, and committed to climate justice, we work in the places, on the projects and with the people that can make the biggest difference.
Overfishing: The most serious threat to our oceans
Sep 18, 2023 · Overfishing is catching too many fish at once, so the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover. Overfishing often goes hand in hand with wasteful types of commercial fishing that haul in massive amounts of unwanted fish or other animals, which are then discarded. As a result of prolonged and widespread overfishing, nearly a third of ...
How cap and trade works | Environmental Defense Fund
Jan 22, 2020 · Cap and trade is one way to do both. It’s a system designed to reduce pollution in our atmosphere. Cap and trade reduces emissions, such as those from power plants, by setting a limit on pollution and creating a market. The cap on greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming is a firm limit on pollution. The cap gets stricter over time.
9 ways we know humans caused climate change
May 9, 2024 · 5. Basic physics that shows us that CO2 absorbs heat (research beginning in the 1820s). 6. Monitoring climate conditions to find that the air, sea and land is warming, as we would expect with rising greenhouse gas emissions; as a response, ice is melting and sea level is rising (research beginning in the 1930s). 7.
Plugging orphan wells across the United States
Oct 14, 2021 · This legislation, for the first time, allocated $4.7 billion to plug orphan wells across the country and lays the groundwork for reducing the number of unplugged orphan wells going forward. Initial grants totaling $560 million have already been distributed to states and plugging work has started. This legislation will create tens of thousands ...
About us - Environmental Defense Fund
We began in 1967, as a scrappy group of scientists and a lawyer on Long Island, New York, fighting to save osprey from the toxic pesticide DDT. Using scientific evidence, our founders got DDT banned in the U.S. Today, we’re one of the world’s top environmental organizations. We deliver bold solutions that cut climate pollution and ...
Global Warming Potentials (GWPs)/CO 2-equivalent (CO 2 e) and the importance of time horizons There are many different pollutants that contribute to global climate change, and they have varying
This is why fighting climate change is so urgent
That global warming trend is increasingly disrupting our climate — the average weather over many years. Earth has already warmed by about 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, since the 19th century, before industry started to boom. While we experience the effects, we’re on our way toward 1.5 degrees C (2.7 F) by as early as 2030.
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The biggest thing Congress has ever done to address ... - EDF
Aug 12, 2022 · With its $369 billion in climate and clean energy investments, the new law is the largest, most ambitious climate legislation Congress has ever passed. Multiple independent analyses show the bill will reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions some 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, a big step toward President Biden’s goal of cutting them in half by 2030.