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Comment: Please note that you cannot inherit notability. While the Drawdown book and Hawken are notable subjects, I'm not seeing anything compelling here to pass WP:NORG Sulfurboy (talk) 19:44, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
| Founded | 2014 |
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| Founder | Paul Hawken |
| Type | 501(c)(3) nonprofit |
| Location |
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Executive director | Jonathan Foley |
| Website | drawdown |
Project Drawdown is an American nonprofit organization that researches and publishes analyses of climate change mitigation measures. It takes its name from "drawdown", the point at which greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere stop rising and begin to decline.[1] The organization is best known for the 2017 book Drawdown, which ranked 100 existing technologies and practices by their modelled potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.[2]
History
[edit]Project Drawdown was founded in 2014 by the environmentalist and author Paul Hawken.[3] Hawken assembled a group of several hundred researchers and practitioners to model the emissions impact of individual mitigation measures, work published as the book Drawdown in 2017.[4] The book became a New York Times bestseller.[5] The climate scientist Jonathan Foley, previously executive director of the California Academy of Sciences, succeeded Hawken as executive director in 2019.[6] The organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in San Francisco and states that it is funded by individual and institutional donations.[1][7]
Research and publications
[edit]Project Drawdown maintains a database of climate solutions, each assessed for its potential emissions reduction, cost and financial return under scenarios consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 °C or 2 °C.[1] The organization does not conduct primary research; it synthesises published data and models the aggregate effect of deploying each measure at scale.[8] The methodology was set out in the 2017 book and updated in The Drawdown Review (2020), which revised the earlier rankings and grouped measures under three headings: reducing sources of emissions, supporting natural carbon sinks, and improving society.[9] In 2023 the organization published the Drawdown Roadmap, which argues for sequencing solutions by sector, geography and timing rather than treating them as an undifferentiated list.[10] Staff researchers have published in peer-reviewed journals, including a 2022 review in The Lancet Planetary Health examining overlaps between climate mitigation measures and human development outcomes.[7]
Reception
[edit]Reviewing Drawdown in Science, the economist Faye Duchin called it an ambitious project while questioning aspects of its approach; Duchin's own earlier modelling of plant-rich diets had reached different conclusions from those of the Drawdown team.[11] Writing in GreenBiz, the sustainable-finance analyst Sasja Beslik argued that Project Drawdown had omitted capital reallocation and socially responsible investing from its rankings, contending that shifting investment away from carbon-intensive companies would outrank several of the solutions the organization listed.[12] Researchers have also adapted the framework to smaller jurisdictions. A team led by the energy policy scholar Marilyn A. Brown at the Georgia Institute of Technology used Project Drawdown's global solution set as the starting point for "Drawdown Georgia", a state-level analysis published in Environmental Management that identified 20 measures suited to the state and discussed the strengths and limitations of translating a global framework to a subnational scale.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Mission and Impact". Project Drawdown. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
- ^ Roberts, David (2017-05-10). "This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising". Vox. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
- ^ Gunther, Marc (2014-10-22). "First look: environmental entrepreneur Paul Hawken's long-awaited new book". The Guardian. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
- ^ Schlossberg, Tatiana (2017-06-12). "How Much Do You Know About Solving Global Warming?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
- ^ Worrall, Simon (2017-05-28). "100 Practical Ways to Reverse Climate Change". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 2019-09-03. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
- ^ "Jonathan Foley, Ph.D." Project Drawdown. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
- ^ a b Jameel, Yusuf; Patrone, Carissa; Patterson, Kristen P.; West, Paul C. (2022). "Climate–poverty connections: an evidence-based review of climate solutions that generate human benefit". The Lancet Planetary Health. 6. doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00280-7.
- ^ a b Brown, Marilyn A.; Beasley, Blair; Atalay, Fikret; et al. (2021). "Translating a Global Emission-Reduction Framework for Subnational Climate Action: A Case Study from the State of Georgia". Environmental Management. 67 (2): 205–227. doi:10.1007/s00267-020-01406-1.
- ^ "The Drawdown Review". Project Drawdown. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
- ^ "Drawdown Roadmap". Project Drawdown. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
- ^ Duchin, Faye (2017). "Climate optimism gets a road map". Science. 356 (6340): 811. doi:10.1126/science.aan2293.
- ^ Beslik, Sasja (2018-03-23). "Did Project Drawdown miss a crucial climate solution?". GreenBiz. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
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