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  • Published: 19 March 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141988436
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00

Drawdown

The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming




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

For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. All of the techniques described here - some well-known, some you may have never heard of - are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are already enacting them. From revolutionizing how we produce and consume food to educating girls in lower-income countries, these are all solutions which, if deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, could not just slow the earth's warming, but reach drawdown: the point when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. So what are we waiting for?

  • Published: 19 March 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141988436
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.

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Praise for Drawdown

It will give you the best kind of hope, the kind that balances realism with radical vision . . . Drawdown stands out among the many recent climate books . . . This is a breakthrough book, and even its omissions are instructive. There really is a way forward, and these days, it's great to see this rather basic fact demonstrated with such astonishing focus and brio

The Nation

A bold plan to beat back climate change based on solutions already within our grasp

Outside Magazine