Short Synopsis
Drawdown gathers the 100 most substantive solutions to roll back climate change, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world.

Full Synopsis
The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world

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. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. 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. 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.

"[A] comprehensive and exacting compilation of vivid exposition and data . . . A rigorous and profoundly important resource." ---Booklist Starred Review

"An optimistic program for getting out of our current mess, well deserving of the broadest possible readership." ---Kirkus

"Immensely compelling . . . Drawdown is not only comprehensive, it's crucial to our world's conversation about climate change." ---Shelf Awareness

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