![]() We cannot reach Drawdown without simultaneously reducing emissions toward zero and supporting nature’s carbon sinks.ħ. We must accelerate these solutions, while actively stopping the use of coal, oil, and gas.Ħ. The majority of climate solutions reduce or replace the use of fossil fuels. The financial case for climate solutions is crystal clear, as savings significantly outweigh costs.ĥ. We can reach Drawdown by mid-century if we scale the climate solutions already in hand.Ģ.Ĝlimate solutions are interconnected as a system, and we need all of them.ģ.ěeyond addressing greenhouse gases, climate solutions can have “co-benefits” that contribute to a better, more equitable world.Ĥ. If anything in this article piques your interest, I highly suggest checking out the full report, which can be found for your viewing pleasure at .ġ. * Note: Much of the wording in this article (and all of its content) has been borrowed directly from the Drawdown Review. Let’s get started with some key insights from the Drawdown team’s newest update. My job in this article is to distill this report for easier at-a-glance consumption. ![]() In March 2020, they published the first update to their research in The Drawdown Review 2020: Climate Solutions for a New Decade. It was-and remains-the most influential book of climate solutions ever written, in my opinion. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being-giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.In 2017, Project Drawdown published Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. One hundred techniques and practices are described here-some are well known some you may have never heard of. The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.” -David Roberts, Vox “This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook-only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.” -Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.” -Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming “There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. ![]() Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world “At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it.To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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