Environmental Defense Fund

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
EDF
Pronunciation
/ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmɛnəl dɪˈfɛns fənd/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
Politics

Examples in Context

  1. Environmental Defense Fund(EDF) believes that a sustainable environment requires economic and social systems that are equitable and just.
  2. These achievements illustrate how Environmental Defense Fund(EDF) uses science, law, and economics to bring about social reform for environmental protection.
  3. Environmental Defense Fund(EDF) helped launch the modern environmental movement in the United States by winning a ban on the persistent pesticide DDT.
  4. Environmental Defense Fund(EDF) The criteria for delimiting protected environs for meteorological observation shall be prescribed by the competent meteorological department under the State Council.
  5. Environmental Defense Fund(EDF)'s emissions trading concept has become the centerpiece of the Kyoto Protocol to control greenhouse gases and limit climate change.

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