Project Drawdown is also now engaging the private sector in a big way. This is a living document so do keep checking their website as no doubt things will change as they continue to research and model. Also, some solutions may quickly achieve a certain amount of emission reduction or storage and then not deliver much more without a high degree of effort. Consider how certain solutions are better positioned to achieve high amounts of emission reduction or storage at lower cost. The solutions that are most economical fluctuate depending on the scenario. Each scenario requires a certain amount of emissions to be reduced or stored to achieve a temperature reduction goal. Drawdown is all about implementing solutions that are plausible and economic. It can be a little confusing why the top 3 solutions change by scenario. All of the solutions and both scenarios are plausible and economic. We link to all the solutions in our show notes for you to check out. The 2 degree Celsius scenario shows reduced food waste, health and education, and plant-rich diets as the top three.
The 1.5 degree Celsius scenario shows onshore wind turbines, utility-scale solar photovoltaics, and reduced food waste as the top three in terms of gigatons of CO2 equivalent reduced or sequestered. One scenario that is in line with a 1.5 degree Celsius temperature rise by 2100 and another scenario that is in line with a 2 degree Celsius temperature rise by 2100. Major bucket here is health and education.Īnd don’t worry they still rank the solutions by impact. This involves uplifting the ways nature takes in carbon.Įxamples here are the soil and the ocean, as well as engineered sinks that remove and store carbon. Think electricity, buildings, and transportation. They now break down the solutions into three buckets: sources, sinks, and society.īasically reducing or removing the actions that are the cause of carbon emissions. Since we talked with Paul, Project Drawdown has been busy.įirst of all, you won’t find that list of 100 solutions on its website anymore. It ranked and detailed the top 100 solutions to climate change that will eliminate carbon from our atmosphere. The book Project Drawdown was published in 2017. We released an episode titled “Reversing Global Warming” in June 2018 that focused on the book Project Drawdown and featured an interview with its author Paul Hawken. This conversation was recorded online with Anthony in the Kimberley and Paul at home in California on 30 September 2021 (Australian time), with thanks to the team at the Derby Media Aboriginal Corporation for use of their studio.Learn about more environmental topics impacting our natural environment here! Updated Episode Intro Notes Hawken is a renowned lecturer who has keynoted conferences and led workshops on the impact of commerce upon the environment, and has consulted with governments and corporations throughout the world. Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of eight books that have been published in thirty languages in more than fifty countries and have sold more than two million copies. The term drawdown is now in generic use, employed and referred to thousands of times a day, and the book’s conclusions became the “bible” for over a trillion dollars of funds managed by numerous financial institutions. Before the book was published, the goal and word were not mentioned in climate literature. So how do we change this? How do we, as this one generation, engage the majority of humanity and fundamentally shift our collective course?ĭrawdown is in its 14th printing, was a NYT bestseller, is published in 14 languages, has been referred to and used by heads of state, is part of the curriculum on every grade level from 4th grade to MIT graduate school, and is placed in a New Zealand hotel chain alongside the Gideon Bible.ĭrawdown named the goal. And, most people in the world remain disengaged. And that’s in a context where we’re still going backwards in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, our health, and other critical crises. If Drawdown was what-could-be-done, Regeneration is how-to-get-it-done. The not-for-profit Regeneration organisation is developing an extraordinary set of online guides and resources, teaching materials and media productions to assist our efforts, whoever and wherever we are. And like Drawdown, it doesn’t end at the book. Regeneration is billed as the first book to describe the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly around the world.
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