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Environmental impact bonds could help the state of Louisiana – and other coastal areas dealing with land loss and sea level rise – restore its rapidly disappearing coast faster, better and for less money, according to a new report by EDF and Quantified Ventures.

Fact sheet for EDF report on how environmental impact bonds can accelerate wetland restoration in Louisiana and beyond.

EDF and Quantified Ventures investigate how environmental impact bonds can help make coastal communities more resilient to climate change.

Hurricane Katrina ravaged the U.S. Gulf coast in 2005, causing about $125 billion in damage.

Today the Louisiana Legislature unanimously passed the FY19 Coastal Annual Plan, which will fund coastal restoration and protection projects in the state over the next fiscal year.

Louisiana's future coast will not be what it is today, but it will continue to exist, although on a smaller footprint. Letter to the editor by EDF's Natalie Peyronnin for The Washington Post.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and other state and federal agencies to collaborate on permitting for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion.

Looking back, we may see 2017 as the year we really started taking on the full measure of our coastal challenges. Here's to 2018 and beyond, and to continuing progress to restore our coast. Op-ed by EDF's Steve Cochran for The Times-Picayune.

EDF and other groups working to address Louisiana’s land loss crisis released a report outlining 17 priority projects for restoring the Mississippi River Delta.

National and local conservation organizations committed to coastal Louisiana restoration issued the following statement in support of GOMESA funding.

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced today that it has started work on a pilot project to design the first ever Environmental Impact Bond (EIB) for wetland restoration.

Updated USGS maps show decreased rate of Louisiana land loss. Conservation groups including EDF say urgent action still needed to slow down continued land loss and build new land.

Today, Louisiana’s State Legislature passed SCR1, a resolution approving the 2017 Coastal Master Plan, the state’s blueprint for coastal restoration and protection activities.

Conservation groups call on Congress to fight to protect GOMESA funding and other Louisiana coastal restoration funding and programs

Louisiana could lose $3.6 billion in infrastructure and $7.6 billion in business disruption costs over the next 50 years if the state takes no action to curb its coastal land loss crisis.

2017 study sponsored by EDF underscores regional economic costs of Louisiana coastal loss loss as well as job creation through restoration.

Louisiana Governor sent a letter outlining the state’s coastal restoration and protection infrastructure priorities, including five projects included in Coastal Master Plan

Louisiana releases draft 2017 Coastal Master Plan that, if approved, will serve as blueprint for state’s coastal restoration and protection activities.

NFWF approves nearly $370 million in investments in Gulf Coast restoration, including $245 million dedicated to five coastal restoration projects in Louisiana.

The Louisiana oil spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees announced $22.3 million in coastal restoration projects today.

Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority advances Mid-Barataria sediment diversion restoration project by issuing EIS public notice.

EDF and groups working on Mississippi River Delta restoration urge Congress to include funding for Louisiana coastal restoration, protection in WRDA.

Flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and 11-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina serve as reminders of increased need for coastal and community resilience, coastal restoration.

Leading scientists and community experts in coastal Louisiana released key recommendations for operating Mississippi River sediment diversions.

Coalition of EDF and other groups working to rebuild coastal Louisiana’s nationally-significant landscape to protect people, wildlife and jobs.