The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has launched the Innovation Exchange, which is designed to facilitate best practices sharing among corporations in the area of energy, water, and climate change mitigation.
The innovation exchange includes recommendations, case studies, research, and tools. These are arranged by ‘environmental opportunity’ (clean water, or productive oceans, for example) or by industry. Fortune 500 companies, such as Wal-Mart, FedEx and McDonald’s, have partnered with EDF, and included their own resources.
In terms of clean water, one of the key areas of the Innovation Exchange, EDF recommends that corporations in multiple sectors measure their ‘water footprint’, improve water efficiency and the quality of available water resources, and work with regional governments to improve water management systems. EDF offers tools for firms that seek to create a corporate water strategy.
