EDF Innovations
EDF trains students to help companies develop environmental innovations.
Advisory Committee
Michael Browne
Co-Founder and Managing Director, IMT Capital Partners
Laurie Burt
Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Bill Chameides
Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University
Ralph Earle
Managing Director, Clean Energy Venture Group
John Elkington
Founding Partner. Volans Ventures; Founder & Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility
Dan Esty
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University
Richard Kauffman
Chief Executive Officer, Good Energies
David Yarnold
Executive Director, Environmental Defense Fund
2009 INNOVATIONS REVIEW
Companies find that environmental sustainability helps reduce costs and gain advantages.
For nearly 20 years, EDF has been working with leading businesses to create innovative tools to improve their environmental performance. Some of the innovations we have created with our partner companies over the past year include:
Green Portfolio:
EDF and private equity giant KKR have developed and tested a set of analytic tools and metrics to help companies in KKR’s U.S. portfolio improve environmental performance in key areas. In 2008, the three pilot companies—U.S. Food Service, PRIMEDIA and Sealy—generated savings of $16.4 million and prevented more than 25,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Read more
Climate Corps:
EDF embeds specially-trained MBA students into corporations to identify energy efficiency improvements that can cut costs and emissions. Working at Cisco, Intuit, Yahoo! and other industry leaders last summer, Climate Corps helped uncover efficiencies that could save $35 million and prevent more than 50,000 tons of global warming pollution annually. Read more
Posted: 06-Apr-2009; Updated: 20-Apr-2009
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