DrawdownThe Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global Warming - Softcover

Paul Hawken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143130447 ISBN 13: 9780143130444

Publisher: Penguin Books (Usa), 2017

Synopsis

One hundred practical measures for the most comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gases.

In Drawdown, renowned environmentalist Paul Hawken has assembled a team of over 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and activists to illustrate the hundred most substantive solutions to combat climate change that together will not only slow down the growth of carbon emissions, but reverse them altogether. The book analyzes how and when humanity can reach climate drawdown, the point at which greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere begin to decline on a year-to-year basis, by mapping and modeling how we can scale those hundred technologies over the next thirty years. Printed on recycled paper, Drawdown the book, will be one of three centerpieces to Project Drawdown, which will also feature an open-source database and an interactive digital platform that together describe how these solutions can be scaled globally across continents and across many different ways of life.

These are all no regrets approaches-actions that regardless of their climate value have intrinsic benefits to communities and economies. They improve lives, create jobs, restore the environment, enhance security, generate resilience, and advance human health. Together they will mobilise society into taking the climate change conversation from problem definition to problem solving, from fear and apathy to collaboration and regeneration.

Drawdown is the first book that describes the full gamut of substantive solutions to climate change.

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Praise for Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest

'Exciting, compelling, and very important . . . It will inspire and encourage millions more to take action.' ----Jane Goodall, UN Ambassador for Peace.

About the Author:

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author who has 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. Paul Hawken has written seven books, which have been published in more than fifty countries and twenty-nine languages. Natural Capitalism, coauthored by Hawken, was cited by President Bill Clinton as one of the five most important books in the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books (Usa)
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0143130447
• ISBN 13: 9780143130444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256