Nature Wins! Success Stories Provided By the EDF
Protecting vulnerable ecosystems
Impact: Over 2,900 acres have been enrolled in EDF’s monarch conservation program.
Our role: We created and launched with our partners the Monarch Butterfly Habitat Exchange, which incentivizes farmers and ranchers along the monarch’s migration route to cultivate and protect high-quality milkweed habitat on their lands.
What’s next: Secure enough funding to protect habitat for 105 million monarchs. Why is working with private land owners a win-win for people and wildlife? >>
Sustainable fishing catches on nationally
Impact: Overfishing has dropped 60% in U.S. federal waters since 2000; and better management is providing more stable fishing jobs and increased revenue.
Our role: We introduced a type of management known as “catch shares,” which is now widely used. Catch shares give fishermen a stake in the overall health of a fishery.
What’s next: Make sustainable fishing the norm around the world >>
Hundreds of companies boost energy efficiency
Impact: EDF Climate Corps, an innovative summer fellowship program, has embedded over 950 trained fellows within more than 450 leading organizations—including 1 in 3 Fortune 100 companies. Together, they’ve uncovered over $1.6 billion in wasted energy.
Our role: We train hundreds of graduate students and embed them at leading organizations to help them scale their energy efficiency, invest in renewables, set science-based sustainability targets and green their supply chains.
What’s next: Expand the program in the U.S.—strategically focusing on high impact companies—and in China, where the potential for energy savings is enormous and largely untapped.
Thousands of consumer products get safer
Impact: Walmart’s inaugural chemicals policy has removed over 23 million pounds of chemicals of high concern from household and beauty products and made it easier for consumers to find product ingredient information online. Now, Walmart has set a new goal to tackle all chemicals of concern in these products and to expand its commitment to sustainable chemistry to other product categories.
Our role: We guided Walmart in setting and implementing a leadership chemicals policy that can demonstrate real, credible reductions in the use of chemicals of concern in products people use every day.
What’s next: Replicate an effective and measurable approach to safer chemicals across the retail industry. Why do we work with companies like Walmart? >>