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 organisation is a resource for climate solutions. To help the world stop climate change—as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible. To this end, they pursue three key strategies:
- Advance Effective, Science-based Climate Solutions and Strategies. We do the science no one else does to cut through the noise and find effective “whole system” solutions and strategies for stopping climate change.
- Foster Bold, New Climate Leadership. We inform, inspire, and empower business leaders, investors, and philanthropists to take bold, new positions, act more strategically, and rapidly bring climate solutions to scale.
- Promote New Narratives and New Voices. We work to shift the conversation about climate change from “doom and gloom” to “possibility and opportunity.” And we elevate new, underrepresented climate heroes through storytelling and “passing the mic.”
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.
