A project based on the book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by project director Paul Hawkin, which describes and ranks 100 solutions to reverse buildup of atmospheric carbon in 30 years. The solutions include estimated costs and cost savings in billions of dollars.

Top Solutions:

• Health and Education
• Engineered Sinks: BioChar production
• Coastal and Ocean Sinks: Coastal Wetland Protection, Coastal Wetland Restoration
• Land Sinks: such as Bamboo Production, Managed Grazing
• Buildings : Biogas for cooking, Improved Clean Cookstoves
• Transportation: Carpooling, Efficient trucks
• Industry: Alternative Cement, Bioplastic
• Electricity: Biomass Power, Geothermal Power
• Food, Agriculture and Land Use: Nutrient Management, Farm Irrigation Effeciency

Publications:

• A list with the 100 solutions with information and impact assessment.
• Insights

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Penguin, April 2017, 256p) – The book maps, measures, models, and describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. For each solution, it describes its history, the carbon impact it provides, the relative cost and savings, the path to adoption, and how it works.