Natural Resources Defense Council

Internationalfrom china to india to the americas, nrdc's international work leverages our scientific, economic, and policy expertise to advance key environmental and climate programs with far-reaching impacts across the world. Our highlights from this past fiscal year are as follows:nrdc endeavored to help curtail greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate the transition to clean energy while preparing for climate impacts worldwide. In one notable achievement that stemmed in part from decades-long nrdc advocacy, india announced that it will ratify the kigali amendment to the montreal protocol, a global pact to phase down climate-warming hydrofluorocarbons (hfcs)-a potent greenhouse gas used in industrial refrigerants and air conditioners-and that it plans to develop a national strategy for phasing down hfcs. At the united nations conference of the parties 26 in glasgow (cop26), nrdc held events on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change, including an event on the role of green banks and the development of finance institutions in mobilizing private investments into climate action; and panel discussions about opportunities for implementing the kigali amendment in india as well as building climate resilience that focuses on the most vulnerable people in the country. Nrdc also worked across its many functions to continue protecting primary forests in the canadian boreal, which absorb significant amounts of the world's carbon dioxide and house the planet-warming gas within their soil. Efforts included campaigns with partners to push procter & gamble's ceo to stop sourcing from the boreal forests to make charmin toilet paper and other tissue products and coordinating and releasing an open letter to canada's prime minister justin trudeau, signed by 100 leading scientists across the world, to call for an end to logging in the forests and for canada to fully account for the logging industry's carbon emissions. We also worked with other organizations to hold investors and board of directors of big corporations accountable for continuing to log primary forests; as a result of our advocacy, lowe's, one of the world's largest home improvement retailers, committed to evaluating and disclosing the impact of its sourcing on primary forests and indigenous rights in order do its part in addressing deforestation and primary forest degradation.nrdc sustained its pursuit of helping other key parts of the world transition to cleaner energy and become more prepared for the effects of climate change. Examples include recommending solutions to expand charging infrastructure in countries, such as working with a nonprofit organization to optimize charging infrastructure construction and charging operations in shanghai and releasing publications on how to optimally select sites for electric vehicle charging stations in india. Nrdc also continued to help build climate resilience in india, a country at the forefront of extreme climate effects, by presenting information workshops on how to strengthen heat adaptation efforts at the state and local levels. Additionally, nrdc coordinated a letter signed by u.s. environmental, justice, foreign policy, and trade groups to pressure the biden administration to address actions by mexico that are undermining clean energy progress, and advocated for the opening of a formal consultation with the country to assess the ability of its energy policies in meeting emissions reductions targets as well as air quality standards.

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