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facial swelling during well drilling nearby that doctors said was probably caused by chemical exposure.
the oil and gas industry, but we need to do more.
In 2018, EDF announced that it would launch a satellite to locate and measure methane pollution worldwide.
MethaneSAT, designed and operated by EDF subsidiary MethaneSAT LLC, is under construction and will be ready to launch in late 2022.
It will be able to scan millions of oil and gas sites around the globe and hundreds of thousands of miles of major pipelines.
It will also make its data public in order to hold oil and gas producers responsible for reducing their pollution.
By fence-line communities concerned about harmful chemicals that leak along with methane.
By investors who evaluate corporate responsibility and climate risk.
By governments — such as China, the EU and U.S. federal and state governments — that are considering ways to tackle methane emissions.
European Commission I have to give EDF credit for having brought methane to the attention of decision-makers around the world.
EDF IMPACT REPORT We have worked with EDF to develop a shared vision of an all-electric future and an aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035.
Driving the clean car revolution We unite powerful partners to accelerate the transition to clean transportation.
Our full-court press on clean vehicles is transforming the U.S. auto industry.
EDF, working with automakers, labor unions and regulators, was instrumental in building consensus around this goal.
Our many meetings with General Motors helped lead to the company’s transformative announcement that it is taking action to sell only zero- emission vehicles by 2035.
The company plans to spend $manufacturing batteries and electric trucks, creating 11,000 jobs.
U.S. automakers have already invested more than $$75 billion planned over the next five years.
We’re also working with partners to advance zeroemitting trucks and buses.
a public-private initiative to roll out at ports and warehouses in Southern California — the largest such deployment in North America — which will reduce tailpipe pollution in local communities.
We are working with companies like IKEA and FedEx, both of which have committed to making their deliveries pollution-free.
EDF is urging the Biden administration to establish pollution standards that would help ensure all new cars sold in the U.S. are zero-emission by and freight trucks and buses by 2040 — and many urban trucks and buses as early as 2027.
This would save tens of thousands of lives and cut billions of tons of climate pollution.
Across the nation, communities of color are most exposed to harmful air pollution.
Kim Wasserman, who leads the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, an EDF ally, knows this all too well.
Her group is fighting diesel pollution in Little Village, a busy Latino neighborhood in Chicago.
Fighting for clean air, right here Diesel trucks and buses produce more asthma-inducing nitrogen oxides and particulate pollution than any other highway vehicle.
We want companies to electrify their fleets, but electrification needs to be done equitably.
Our drivers, our mom and pop diesel repair shops, need training and access to clean technology jobs.
We fight climate change by making the world’s tropical forests worth more alive than dead.
the realization of one of those bold dreams.
It’s a game-changer in our fight to save the tropical forests that protect our planet.
Breakthrough investment to save rainforests Two decades ago, EDF and Brazilian partners pioneered the concept of paying those who reduce greenhouse gas emissions by preserving tropical forests.
that idea has blossomed into LEAF (Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance), an innovative fund that aims to save large-scale tropical forests and help the Indigenous people who defend them.
The coalition of three governments and already mobilized an initial $1 billion, with much more to come.
LEAF aims to launch a new international market for tropical nations to sell carbon credits to private companies, where the credits are tied to genuine and verifiable reductions in deforestation at the scale of whole countries or states.
recruit many of the founding companies, including Salesforce and Airbnb.
Saving tropical forests is critical to the fight against climate change.
amounts of carbon dioxide, and are home to many Indigenous peoples and forest communities.
They also shelter and sustain more biodiversity than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.
“There is no way to stabilize the climate without protecting tropical forests,” says Steve Schwartzman, EDF’s senior director of tropical forest policy.
What’s next: Carbon markets could help the world double its emissions reductions at no extra cost.
But the current patchwork of informal markets lacks consistent standards and oversight.
to expand the use of voluntary carbon markets that meet rigorous, global standards.
From 2002 through 2019, global tropical forest loss averaged 8.3 million acres a year — an area larger than Belgium.
Forever wild The Amazon is home to one in including harpy eagles, pink river dolphins and this majestic jaguar.
M “For 20 years, farmers have heard rumors about programs that pay for keeping trees standing.
But for the farmers I work with, this is the first time anyone has come to them with a real plan.
EDF IMPACT REPORT EDF is a vital partner in Louisiana’s efforts to implement some of the largest, most ambitious ecosystem restoration projects anywhere on the planet.
New protections for storm-battered coasts Plans for the largest individual ecosystem restoration effort in U.S. history reached a major milestone this year, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave the thumbs-up to an EDF-backed plan to restore thousands of acres of precious Louisiana wetlands.
In a state that loses, on average, one football field of land to the sea every project in the Mississippi River Delta will help shield Louisiana’s embattled coastal communities and the city of New Orleans from storm surge and flooding.
work to protect our coasts, and coastal communities, from climate change, which every year pummels the U.S. with stronger, wetter storms and higher seas, placing millions of homes and livelihoods at risk.
the risk of coastal flooding, we are part of a coalition pushing to secure a $seashore and wetland restoration, water quality improvements and more.
In Florida, we helped persuade authorities to expand flood protection efforts to incorporate coral reefs and mangroves, which also play an important role in wildlife protection.
What’s next: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision means final permits to begin work could be issued as soon as 2022.
The project will harness the power of the mighty Mississippi River to shift massive amounts of sediment to gradually rebuild and maintain $1.8M One square kilometer of coastal wetlands saves an average of $1.8 million a year in property damage from storms.
As climate changes, and seas warm and rise, the historic city of New Orleans faces ever greater risk of flooding.
Conserving habitat Protecting coastal Louisiana also safeguards habitat for this piping plover chick, one of millions of migratory birds that pass through the region each year.
On the ground Angela Chalk founded Healthy Community Services to fortify her community’s defenses against hurricanes and floods.
JULIE DERMANSKY PHOTOGRAPHY “With the disappearing of land in Louisiana goes our culture, our history, our people.
If this coast erodes much more, New Orleans is going to end up with the Gulf of Mexico at our front doors.
We are resilient but we can’t continue to be sitting ducks.
Supporting community-led clean air efforts Sunnyside is a historically Black neighborhood in Houston where people tend community gardens, occasionally ride horses down the street and frequently look out for each other.
It’s also a neighborhood where the city placed two landfills, an incinerator, concrete plants and metal recycling facilities, all of which generate air pollution near homes, churches and schools.
Rates of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which can be triggered or exacerbated by this pollution, are among the highest in the city.
“We have stories and experiences, but limited data,” says Jo Ann Jones-Burbridge (pictured, center), vice president of the Sunnyside Community Redevelopment Organization.
SCRO worked with EDF to install a community-owned and -operated network of monitors that will detect local air pollution and help identify its sources.
“We know that data drives decisions,” says Jones-Burbridge.
New hope for drought-plagued California In a bill sponsored by EDF, California pledged $million to help farmers reduce water use in the parched state.
The money, part of a groundbreaking statewide water conservation effort, will help landowners repurpose some areas of farmland to less water-intensive uses such as parks, rangelands or habitat for species like the endangered San Joaquin kit fox (pictured).
We are now working with state water agencies and local landowners to identify the types of projects that could benefit from the program.
A number of pilots will be launched next year.
The Humboldt Current, off the west coast of South America, is part of one of the world’s most productive ocean ecosystems, providing more than caught globally.
But warming seas and other impacts of climate change are causing fish to move, shifting available catch and potentially sparking international conflict.
In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, EDF is helping Chile, Peru and Ecuador share data about changing ocean conditions to develop an online early warning system that will show in real time how climate change is affecting their fisheries.
A vital Earth Helping people and nature thrive Today, more than ever, we must protect people, especially the most vulnerable, from environmental pollution.
EDF is a critical partner in this effort.
EDF IMPACT REPORT We hold the world’s biggest companies accountable for their role in climate change.
EDF IMPACT REPORT Investors are listening to EDF, which fills a critical gap by bringing the highestcaliber expert insights and concrete actions to climate conversations.
Investors deliver major boardroom victory Just coal responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas pollution.
We are galvanizing investor pressure to compel some of the worst polluters to slash emissions from their operations and business models.
No. seats on Exxon Mobil Corporation’s board of directors.
The vote was a clear signal to the oil and gas sector that investors want meaningful climate action.
We supported Engine No. shareholders that for Exxon — and all the world’s biggest emitters — the global climate crisis is a business risk.
Soon after the board vote, EDF announced a partnership with Legal & General Investment Management America, the American arm of the world’s investment management firm.
Together we will use the power of investors to push major oil and gas and transportation companies to rapidly transition to net zero emissions.
“This is a watershed moment for the oil and gas industry and leading investors,” says EDF President Fred Krupp.
What’s next: The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to release new rules requiring companies to declare meaningful information about the risk climate change poses to their bottom lines.
EDF engagement with the SEC and testimony on Capitol Hill figured prominently in the push for these new rules, and we are continuing to work to ensure a strong final rule.
Climate risk is business risk: In Lower Manhattan, a worker cleans up after a storm.
over the next A climate imperative Cutting industrial emissions is key to avoiding the worst effects of climate change.
On the ground Nicholas Zuba, an EDF Climate Corps alumnus, has spent his career helping homeowners and businesses fight for a cleaner, healthier environment.
GREGKESSLER.COM “After seeing lives changed forever by superstorm Sandy, I decided to dedicate my life to fighting climate change.
I watched out my window as the remnants of Hurricane Ida deluged my community of Mamaroneck, New York.
Six feet of floodwaters turned our main street into an extension of the Mamaroneck River.
I was scared for my safety, grieving for my community and angry that we are still letting this happen.
ALAMY.COM EDF Climate Corps expands to India EDF’s summer fellowship program, which trains top graduate students to power environmental progress at leading companies and organizations, is now active in three countries crucial to solving climate change.
This year’s ever, worked in the U.S., China and — for the first time — India.
The including Amazon, McDonald’s and Mahindra & Mahindra ways to slash carbon emissions and build sustainable supply chains.
One fellow, Kuladeep Kumar Sadevi (pictured), developed a plan for a leading Indian real estate developer to become carbon neutral, including transitioning to zero-emission buildings, by 2035.
Since young climate leaders to more than 540 organizations.

facial swelling during well drilling nearby that doctors said was probably caused by chemical exposure.

the oil and gas industry, but we need to do more.

In 2018, EDF announced that it would launch a satellite to locate and measure methane pollution worldwide.

MethaneSAT, designed and operated by EDF subsidiary MethaneSAT LLC, is under construction and will be ready to launch in late 2022.

It will be able to scan millions of oil and gas sites around the globe and hundreds of thousands of miles of major pipelines.

It will also make its data public in order to hold oil and gas producers responsible for reducing their pollution.

By fence-line communities concerned about harmful chemicals that leak along with methane.

By investors who evaluate corporate responsibility and climate risk.

By governments — such as China, the EU and U.S. federal and state governments — that are considering ways to tackle methane emissions.

European Commission I have to give EDF credit for having brought methane to the attention of decision-makers around the world.

EDF IMPACT REPORT We have worked with EDF to develop a shared vision of an all-electric future and an aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035.

Driving the clean car revolution We unite powerful partners to accelerate the transition to clean transportation.

Our full-court press on clean vehicles is transforming the U.S. auto industry.

EDF, working with automakers, labor unions and regulators, was instrumental in building consensus around this goal.

Our many meetings with General Motors helped lead to the company’s transformative announcement that it is taking action to sell only zero- emission vehicles by 2035.

The company plans to spend $manufacturing batteries and electric trucks, creating 11,000 jobs.

U.S. automakers have already invested more than $$75 billion planned over the next five years.

We’re also working with partners to advance zeroemitting trucks and buses.

a public-private initiative to roll out at ports and warehouses in Southern California — the largest such deployment in North America — which will reduce tailpipe pollution in local communities.

We are working with companies like IKEA and FedEx, both of which have committed to making their deliveries pollution-free.

EDF is urging the Biden administration to establish pollution standards that would help ensure all new cars sold in the U.S. are zero-emission by and freight trucks and buses by 2040 — and many urban trucks and buses as early as 2027.

This would save tens of thousands of lives and cut billions of tons of climate pollution.

Across the nation, communities of color are most exposed to harmful air pollution.

Kim Wasserman, who leads the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, an EDF ally, knows this all too well.

Her group is fighting diesel pollution in Little Village, a busy Latino neighborhood in Chicago.

Fighting for clean air, right here Diesel trucks and buses produce more asthma-inducing nitrogen oxides and particulate pollution than any other highway vehicle.

We want companies to electrify their fleets, but electrification needs to be done equitably.

Our drivers, our mom and pop diesel repair shops, need training and access to clean technology jobs.

We fight climate change by making the world’s tropical forests worth more alive than dead.

the realization of one of those bold dreams.

It’s a game-changer in our fight to save the tropical forests that protect our planet.

Breakthrough investment to save rainforests Two decades ago, EDF and Brazilian partners pioneered the concept of paying those who reduce greenhouse gas emissions by preserving tropical forests.

that idea has blossomed into LEAF (Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance), an innovative fund that aims to save large-scale tropical forests and help the Indigenous people who defend them.

The coalition of three governments and already mobilized an initial $1 billion, with much more to come.

LEAF aims to launch a new international market for tropical nations to sell carbon credits to private companies, where the credits are tied to genuine and verifiable reductions in deforestation at the scale of whole countries or states.

recruit many of the founding companies, including Salesforce and Airbnb.

Saving tropical forests is critical to the fight against climate change.

amounts of carbon dioxide, and are home to many Indigenous peoples and forest communities.

They also shelter and sustain more biodiversity than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

“There is no way to stabilize the climate without protecting tropical forests,” says Steve Schwartzman, EDF’s senior director of tropical forest policy.

What’s next: Carbon markets could help the world double its emissions reductions at no extra cost.

But the current patchwork of informal markets lacks consistent standards and oversight.

to expand the use of voluntary carbon markets that meet rigorous, global standards.

From 2002 through 2019, global tropical forest loss averaged 8.3 million acres a year — an area larger than Belgium.

Forever wild The Amazon is home to one in including harpy eagles, pink river dolphins and this majestic jaguar.

M “For 20 years, farmers have heard rumors about programs that pay for keeping trees standing.

But for the farmers I work with, this is the first time anyone has come to them with a real plan.

EDF IMPACT REPORT EDF is a vital partner in Louisiana’s efforts to implement some of the largest, most ambitious ecosystem restoration projects anywhere on the planet.

New protections for storm-battered coasts Plans for the largest individual ecosystem restoration effort in U.S. history reached a major milestone this year, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave the thumbs-up to an EDF-backed plan to restore thousands of acres of precious Louisiana wetlands.

In a state that loses, on average, one football field of land to the sea every project in the Mississippi River Delta will help shield Louisiana’s embattled coastal communities and the city of New Orleans from storm surge and flooding.

work to protect our coasts, and coastal communities, from climate change, which every year pummels the U.S. with stronger, wetter storms and higher seas, placing millions of homes and livelihoods at risk.

the risk of coastal flooding, we are part of a coalition pushing to secure a $seashore and wetland restoration, water quality improvements and more.

In Florida, we helped persuade authorities to expand flood protection efforts to incorporate coral reefs and mangroves, which also play an important role in wildlife protection.

What’s next: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision means final permits to begin work could be issued as soon as 2022.

The project will harness the power of the mighty Mississippi River to shift massive amounts of sediment to gradually rebuild and maintain $1.8M One square kilometer of coastal wetlands saves an average of $1.8 million a year in property damage from storms.

As climate changes, and seas warm and rise, the historic city of New Orleans faces ever greater risk of flooding.

Conserving habitat Protecting coastal Louisiana also safeguards habitat for this piping plover chick, one of millions of migratory birds that pass through the region each year.

On the ground Angela Chalk founded Healthy Community Services to fortify her community’s defenses against hurricanes and floods.

JULIE DERMANSKY PHOTOGRAPHY “With the disappearing of land in Louisiana goes our culture, our history, our people.

If this coast erodes much more, New Orleans is going to end up with the Gulf of Mexico at our front doors.

We are resilient but we can’t continue to be sitting ducks.

Supporting community-led clean air efforts Sunnyside is a historically Black neighborhood in Houston where people tend community gardens, occasionally ride horses down the street and frequently look out for each other.

It’s also a neighborhood where the city placed two landfills, an incinerator, concrete plants and metal recycling facilities, all of which generate air pollution near homes, churches and schools.

Rates of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which can be triggered or exacerbated by this pollution, are among the highest in the city.

“We have stories and experiences, but limited data,” says Jo Ann Jones-Burbridge (pictured, center), vice president of the Sunnyside Community Redevelopment Organization.

SCRO worked with EDF to install a community-owned and -operated network of monitors that will detect local air pollution and help identify its sources.

“We know that data drives decisions,” says Jones-Burbridge.

New hope for drought-plagued California In a bill sponsored by EDF, California pledged $million to help farmers reduce water use in the parched state.

The money, part of a groundbreaking statewide water conservation effort, will help landowners repurpose some areas of farmland to less water-intensive uses such as parks, rangelands or habitat for species like the endangered San Joaquin kit fox (pictured).

We are now working with state water agencies and local landowners to identify the types of projects that could benefit from the program.

A number of pilots will be launched next year.

The Humboldt Current, off the west coast of South America, is part of one of the world’s most productive ocean ecosystems, providing more than caught globally.

But warming seas and other impacts of climate change are causing fish to move, shifting available catch and potentially sparking international conflict.

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, EDF is helping Chile, Peru and Ecuador share data about changing ocean conditions to develop an online early warning system that will show in real time how climate change is affecting their fisheries.

A vital Earth Helping people and nature thrive Today, more than ever, we must protect people, especially the most vulnerable, from environmental pollution.

EDF is a critical partner in this effort.

EDF IMPACT REPORT We hold the world’s biggest companies accountable for their role in climate change.

EDF IMPACT REPORT Investors are listening to EDF, which fills a critical gap by bringing the highestcaliber expert insights and concrete actions to climate conversations.

Investors deliver major boardroom victory Just coal responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas pollution.

We are galvanizing investor pressure to compel some of the worst polluters to slash emissions from their operations and business models.

No. seats on Exxon Mobil Corporation’s board of directors.

The vote was a clear signal to the oil and gas sector that investors want meaningful climate action.

We supported Engine No. shareholders that for Exxon — and all the world’s biggest emitters — the global climate crisis is a business risk.

Soon after the board vote, EDF announced a partnership with Legal & General Investment Management America, the American arm of the world’s investment management firm.

Together we will use the power of investors to push major oil and gas and transportation companies to rapidly transition to net zero emissions.

“This is a watershed moment for the oil and gas industry and leading investors,” says EDF President Fred Krupp.

What’s next: The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to release new rules requiring companies to declare meaningful information about the risk climate change poses to their bottom lines.

EDF engagement with the SEC and testimony on Capitol Hill figured prominently in the push for these new rules, and we are continuing to work to ensure a strong final rule.

Climate risk is business risk: In Lower Manhattan, a worker cleans up after a storm.

over the next A climate imperative Cutting industrial emissions is key to avoiding the worst effects of climate change.

On the ground Nicholas Zuba, an EDF Climate Corps alumnus, has spent his career helping homeowners and businesses fight for a cleaner, healthier environment.

GREGKESSLER.COM “After seeing lives changed forever by superstorm Sandy, I decided to dedicate my life to fighting climate change.

I watched out my window as the remnants of Hurricane Ida deluged my community of Mamaroneck, New York.

Six feet of floodwaters turned our main street into an extension of the Mamaroneck River.

I was scared for my safety, grieving for my community and angry that we are still letting this happen.

ALAMY.COM EDF Climate Corps expands to India EDF’s summer fellowship program, which trains top graduate students to power environmental progress at leading companies and organizations, is now active in three countries crucial to solving climate change.

This year’s ever, worked in the U.S., China and — for the first time — India.

The including Amazon, McDonald’s and Mahindra & Mahindra ways to slash carbon emissions and build sustainable supply chains.

One fellow, Kuladeep Kumar Sadevi (pictured), developed a plan for a leading Indian real estate developer to become carbon neutral, including transitioning to zero-emission buildings, by 2035.

Since young climate leaders to more than 540 organizations.