Environmental Defense Fund is a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are access to clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and flourishing ecosystems. EDF's mission is to preserve the natural systems on which all life depends. Guided by science, they design and transform markets to bring lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems.
Since 1967, they have linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems. EDF evaluates environmental problems and works to create and advocate solutions that win lasting political, economic and social support because they are non-partisan, cost-efficient and fair.
Environmental Defense Fund believes that a sustainable environment will require economic and social systems that are equitable and just. They affirm their commitment to the environmental rights of the poor and people of color. |