Environmental Defense Fund

EDF
United States of America
Non Governmental Organizations

Mission

Environmental Defense Fund is a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 750,000 members. Since 1967, EDF has linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems.

EDF is 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.

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Community-Driven and Research-Informed: Insurance Innovation to Meet Social Needs
This report shares a process of social innovation undertaken to improve the financial recovery of low- and moderate-income (LMI) households from increasing climate disasters.
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Harnessing Risk Transfer to Support Immediate Post-Disaster Needs of Low- And Moderate- Income Households: A meso-insurance pilot in New York City -Implementation Lessons for Community Organizations-
This report shares lessons from the design and launch phases of a learning pilot that couples parametric risk transfer with an immediate post-flood assitance program for low- and moderate-income households.
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Addressing financial recovery gaps for South Carolina households: Models for inclusive disaster insurance
This report provides a comprehensive review of the current resources for economic recovery post-disaster in South Carolina and explores one mechanism for filling identified gaps in recovery: new disaster insurance models.

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Voluntary Commitments

The organization has no registered commitments.

The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

Contact information

https://www.edf.org/
[email protected]
(+55 61) 3411 – 6949/9638/6349
Fax:
(+55 61) 3411 – 9446