‘The Drawdown Review’ provides the most in-depth assessment to date of climate solutions and their potential to reduce greenhouse gases and build a climate-safe future.
A new report from Project Drawdown, the world’s
leading resource on climate solutions, demonstrates that ‘Drawdown’ — the point
at which greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere peak and begin declining,
stopping climate change — is achievable with existing, established technologies
and practices.
The Drawdown
Review builds
on the organization’s inaugural analysis, published in the 2017 New York Times
bestseller Drawdown, and takes into account
the rapidly evolving landscape of climate solutions available today.
The analysis finds that, along with quickly reducing GHG emissions, a critical
component of reaching Drawdown involves supporting nature’s carbon sinks to help
sequester the GHGs that have already been emitted — through, for example,
regenerative
agriculture.
Another area of focus is more fundamental societal solutions — such as improved
access to education and healthcare for all, but especially for women and girls
in developing nations; Project Drawdown’s Katharine Wilkinson discusses the
importance of this for building a climate-safe future in a TED
Talk
in 2018.
In addition to the need for a global shift away from fossil fuels, the report
unsurprisingly highlights the need for similar systemic shifts that eliminate
food
waste,
lean heavily on plant-based
diets,
restore
forests
and
biodiversity,
improve containment and disposal of chemical refrigerants, and dramatically
improve the energy performance of buildings and cities — through renewable
energy
sources,
of course.
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"What these results show is the utmost importance of all solutions implemented
in parallel. The impacts of these technologies and practices occur only as part
of an interconnected, integrated system. It is the implementation of this system
of solutions that is the real solution to climate change." — Chad
Frischmann, VP & Research Director at Project Drawdown
The Drawdown Review shows that meeting the goals outlined in the Paris
Agreement
is technologically and economically feasible — but will require much more
aggressive and immediate action worldwide.
Download The Drawdown Review here.
Published Mar 3, 2020 7am EST / 4am PST / 12pm GMT / 1pm CET
Sustainable Brands Staff