Environmental Defense Fund - Building a vital Earth for everyone
We are Environmental Defense Fund. We are a global nonprofit organization tackling climate change — the greatest challenge of our time. Our bold, game-changing solutions put people at the center of all we do.
Overfishing: The most serious threat to our oceans
Sep 18, 2023 · Of all the threats facing the oceans today, overfishing takes the greatest toll on sea life — and people. What is overfishing? Overfishing is catching too many fish at once, so the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover.
This is why fighting climate change is so urgent
Humans are the main cause of climate change — we burn fossil fuels and chop down forests, causing average temperatures to rise worldwide. 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 ...
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9 ways we know humans caused climate change
May 9, 2024 · Tens of thousands of scientists in more than 100 nations have amassed an overwhelming amount of evidence pointing to a clear conclusion: Humans are the main cause of climate change — burning fossil fuels, producing livestock, clearing trees and otherwise increasing the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.. It’s like the smoking-cancer link
How cap and trade works | Environmental Defense Fund
Jan 22, 2020 · Environmental enforcement officials, trained by EDF, conduct an on-site inspection at a factory in China. China, the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, launched the initial phase of a national carbon market in 2017 with help from EDF.. The new emissions trading system is expected to be the world’s largest, dwarfing all existing programs, and is a central component of China’s strategy ...
3 big ways climate change is impacting your life
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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
Plugging orphan wells across the United States
Oct 14, 2021 · This is a map of more than 120,000 documented orphan wells that are eligible for closure funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021.These wells, which have no solvent owner of record, can leak oil, gas and other toxic chemicals into our air and water.