Drawdown (climate)


Climate drawdown is the point at which greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere level off and begin to decline on a year-to-year basis. Drawdown is a milestone in reversing climate change, and eventually reducing global average temperatures.

Project Drawdown

Project Drawdown is a climate change mitigation project initiated by Paul Hawken and climate activist Amanda Joy Ravenhill. Central to the project is the compilation of a list of the "most substantive solutions to global warming". The list, encompassing only technologically viable, existing solutions, was compiled by a team of more than 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and activists. The team measured and modeled each solution's carbon impact through the year 2050, its total and net cost to society, and its total lifetime savings.

Book

Paul Hawken edited the book Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming, published in 2017, which describes the solutions compiled by Project Drawdown, arranged in order by broad categories such as.