Until now I haven’t explained the name of my blog; today I will rectify that. Drawdown is a book, a project, and a website, dedicated to analyzing, ranking, and explaining the already existing or emerging solutions to reversing global warming. It’s an amazing project with some solutions that surprised me when I first read them. I’ll give a very brief overview of the project in this post. The website is comprehensive and I highly recommend the book.
The term “drawdown” might typically be used to describe reductions in financial accounts or military forces. The Drawdown team uses it instead “to refer to reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.” From reading their materials, it’s clear when they say carbon, they refer to greenhouse gases beyond CO2. Analyses such as these rely on scientists’ ability to calculate the global warming potential of different gases. Thus any gas can be translated into its equivalent in CO2; this is sometimes written as CO2e, or carbon dioxide equivalent.