Drawdown Food, Project Drawdown’s newest climate solutions initiative, is researching and sharing actionable information on ways to minimize GHG emissions from ag and make the most of the food system’s capacity to draw CO2 out of the atmosphere.
#farming
Project Drawdown has identified a list of 20 high-impact climate actions that individuals and households in high-income countries can take that together could reduce up to 25% of future greenhouse gases. Learn more:
Total emissions for a white cotton shirt from field to customer are 80 lbs of CO2.
Hemp is a global warming solution, as it outproduces cotton or trees by factors of 10 to 100 times in terms of yielding usable fiber.
China already gets this.
Good news from New Zealand!
Politicians reached across the aisle this week to pass a historic bill aiming to get the country to zero emissions by 2050 and fulfill its commitments under the Paris Agreement. It CAN be done.
Since 2010, wind power has dropped 49% in cost and solar plummeted 85%.
Within a decade it will be cheaper to build and operate new
#renewable
power plants than to keep operating existing fossil fuel plants.
via
@thinkprogress
#energy
"But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change."
RT
@GretaThunberg
: My TEDx talk has turned into a real TED talk:)
Thank you everyone for sharing!
Climate Solutions at Work, presented by
@ProjectDrawdown
, is here! Explore this free how-to guide for employees looking to make every job a climate job.
#ClimateAtWork
This is great news: The US generated more electricity from
#renewable
sources than coal for the first time ever in April.
Clean energy such as solar and wind provided 23% of US electricity generation during the month, compared to coal’s 20%.
Today we are excited to introduce The Drawdown Review, a comprehensive report containing updates to our research on
#climate
solutions.
Download your free copy: .
#DrawdownReview
#Drawdown2020
A third of the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has been released through deforestation and agricultural practices such as plowing and using synthetic herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers. But plants can reverse that if we let them.
BIG announcement! 📢Project Drawdown is hiring a “dream team” of 4-5 leading scientists—plus a Chief Scientist—to conduct top-quality research and provide world-leading insights on
#climate
solutions and strategies. Please share far and wide!
“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call."
#WednesdayWisdom
― Naomi Klein
Next year Italy will become the world’s first country to make it compulsory for school children to study
#climate
change and sustainable development.
#climateeducation
#stem
"If food waste is halved in the next 30 years, according to Project Drawdown, the world will avoid emitting at least 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide — equivalent to taking 2,570 coal-fired power plants offline."
“We see
#globalwarming
, not as an inevitability but as an invitation to build, innovate, and effect change, a pathway that awakens creativity, compassion, and genius. This is not a liberal agenda, nor is it a conservative one. This is the human agenda.” ―
@PaulHawken
Two key actions:
1) Avoiding food overconsumption
2) Shifting to a plant-rich diet
What happens when we do both? More food and fewer carbon emissions for everyone! Here's what two food waste scenarios look like if half or 2/3rds of the world make those commitments:
Germans are now flying less and using the train instead. A cut in long-distance train fares of 10% this year should make land-based travel even more alluring.
We must continue to find ways to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil. Regenerative agriculture is a
#Drawdown
solution to stopping
#globalwarming
.
“We will be less overwhelmed by our awareness of the problem when we each recognize our power to collectively solve it, share the tasks and enjoy working together for our common good," says
@CrystalChissell
of
@ProjectDrawdown
.
"If in doubt, Project Drawdown provides a fantastic overview and some cold hard numbers for a lot of the most touted solutions to the crisis."
#ClimateAction
#ClimateSolutions
Today we are thrilled to launch Drawdown Labs, a new consortium of visionary private sector partners working to go beyond ‘net zero’ to scale
#climatesolutions
in the world, within and beyond their own operations. Learn more:
"For too long we have undervalued our soils, and we have transferred their carbon into the air, rivers and seas. It’s time to recapture that carbon and reverse climate change in the process." Féidhlim Harty
#regenag
#globalwarming
Happy
#EarthDay
everyone!
Our friends
@CNN
have designed an interactive quiz for you to see how much you know about
@ProjectDrawdown
solutions to stop climate change.
#Drawdown
Take the quiz here:
Every school in
#NewZealand
will this year have access to materials about the climate crisis written by the country’s leading scientists – plus tools for students to plan their own activism, and to process feelings of “eco-anxiety”...
"Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide. The earth is yours and the fullness thereof. Be kind, but be fierce. You are needed now more than ever before. Take up the mantle of change. For this is your time."
-Sir Winston Churchill
#fridaysforfuture
After decades of deforestation, Costa Rica has reforested to the point that half of the country’s land surface is covered with trees again, absorbing CO2. Here's how they did it:
#reforestation
Regenerative agriculture practices help to pull carbon from the air, store it in the soil, and makes the land more resilient to extreme weather. Methods include no-till, cover cropping, crop diversity, and maintaining a living root year-round.
"While it’s great that there are more climate jobs than ever, it’s also important that people advocate for climate where they already are." —
@sarahLazarovic
,
@yesmagazine
, writing about Drawdown Labs' Climate Solutions at Work guide.
🗣️
@KHayhoe
can talk to ANYONE about climate change. She's spoken with congressional staffers, oil execs, college students, farmers, religious leaders, and everybody in between.
Here's how she talks to these very different audiences:
We are pleased to announce that world-renowned environmental scientist and science communicator Dr. Jonathan Foley
@GlobalEcoGuy
is joining
#ProjectDrawdown
as our next Executive Director, officially starting Oct. 1. Welcome Dr. Foley!
As
@GretaThunberg
makes her way to the UN climate conference in New York in a zero-emissions yacht rather than a plane,
@BBCRealityCheck
asks:
What is the environmental impact of flying and how do trips by train, car or boat compare?
Grazing with solar panels is a win-win for sheep and
#solar
developers. The panels themselves create shade that can keep the sheep cool on hot summer days, and the grazing animals eat the vegetation – reducing the need to mow.
via
@CC_Yale
In the first ruling of its kind nationwide, a Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels.
#ClimateAction
We are very excited to announce that Jamie Beck Alexander
@jabeckx
has joined
@ProjectDrawdown
as our inaugural director of Drawdown Labs. Please join us in welcoming Jamie!
Drawdown solutions are a path to action on the
@UN
#GlobalGoals
and "have co-benefits that help alleviate poverty, improve human and planetary health, eliminate hunger, reduce inequalities and promote gender equality,” says
@ChadFrischmann
.
#ACT4SDGs
Project Drawdown’s mission is to help the world address climate change quickly, safely, and equitably.
At its core, our mission is about life.
We stand with
#BlackLivesMatter
and against racism.
Equity, justice, and climate solutions are not separate.
When you hear "climate job," do you think of your role right now?
A lot of agency for implementing climate solutions belongs to the private sector, which is why we're launching a user-friendly guide for EMPLOYEES to use their power: Climate Solutions at Work! Stay tuned.
A new paper in the journal Nature Sustainability analyzed the potential for carbon sequestration in soils and found it could, if properly managed, contribute a quarter of absorption on land.
#carbonsink
#sequester
via
@physorg_com
RT
@ErikSolheim
Norway 🇳🇴 disburses $80 million in aid for Guyana 🇬🇾 solar farms. Guyana has among the lowest deforestation rates in the world.
Solar helps keep Guyana green!
The Earth’s atmosphere is like a bathtub filling up with greenhouse gasses. We need to turn off the tap as soon as possible by reducing emissions across the economy.
Coastal wetlands can store 5 times as much carbon as tropical forests over the long term.
Protecting 6.1-7.2 million hectares and allowing natural regrowth to occur can sequester 0.99-1.1 gigatons of CO2 by 2050.
#WorldOceansDay
#carbonsink
Green roofs are veritable ecosystems in the sky.
Soil and vegetation function as living insulation, moderating building temperatures year-round—cooler in summer, warmer in winter, making them a
#Drawdown2020
solution to
#climate
change.
Reducing our consumption of meat, and adopting a plant-rich diet continues to be one of the most effective
#Drawdown2020
solutions to
#climate
change.
Find out why here: .
#foodwaste
A new generation of growers have embraced “carbon farming,” meaning practices that allow the soil on farms to trap and store more carbon dioxide.
Here's how they're doing it.
via
@NexusMediaNews
Pakistani PM Imran Khan has promised to plant 10 billion trees over the next 5 years to recover much of the 70% of Pakistan's forests cut down in recent years. Forest protection is a Drawdown solution to climate change.
Building out a renewable energy infrastructure will cost $3.5 billion and yield $2.8 billion in savings from avoided climate change impacts. It will also result in $4.7 billion in health benefits from avoided medical bills and lost wages.
"According to Project Drawdown, regenerative agriculture could provide a lifetime net profit gain of $135-$206 billion with an initial investment of $79-$116 billion."
Biochar is a form of charcoal produced when organic matter – for example wood, leaves or dead plants – is heated at high temperatures with little or no oxygen in a process called pyrolysis.
#Biochar
is a
#Drawdown
solution to stopping
#globalwarming
.
Cement is a vital source of strength in infrastructure, second only to water as one of the most used substances in the world. It is also a source of emissions, generating 5 to 6% annually, making alternative cement a
#climatesolution
.
#buildbackbetter
To keep the planet cool, we need grasses in
#subpolar
regions, not trees. You get grasses when you reintroduce herbivores.
That is what Sergey & Nikita Zimov, Russian father-and-son scientists are doing to protect the world’s permafrost.
People in rich nations must change the foods they eat in order to feed 10 billion people, says a new report
#COP24
.
How? Increase the amount of food produced per hectare, reduce meat-eating, & stop wasting 1/3 of food produced.
#DrawdownSolutions
Following in the footsteps of Toronto, San Francisco, Denver, and Portland, Oregon, all new residential and commercial buildings in New York City must top roofs with either plants, solar panels, mini wind turbines—or a combination of all three.
At Project Drawdown, we replace "fighting" with "stopping," as in this article from
@sciam
:
The Best Technology for STOPPING Climate Change Isn't a Technology - forests are the most powerful and efficient carbon-capture system on the planet.
The most frequently asked question we hear
@ProjectDrawdown
is,
"What can I do?"
As the sun rises on a new year, our hearts and minds are at work to provide as many answers as possible, focusing on actions with the greatest impact to stop
#globalwarming
. Stay with us.
"We do need hope, of course we do. But the one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come."
@GretaThunberg
#WednesdayWisdom
Seaweed pouch containers used during the
@LondonMarathon
on April 28 helped to reduce the use of hundreds of thousands of plastic water bottles.
#LondonMarathon
A broad and growing group of agriculture officials, farmers, and climate activists are promoting
#silvopasture
. Not only does it increase soil health and productivity, but it also pulls
#carbon
out of the atmosphere – lots of it.
Every job is a
#climate
job. Why? Climate impacts every facet of our lives, and also because corporations have the agency to implement climate solutions.
How have you made climate action part of your job? 👇 👇 👇
Japan just launched its first urban train service that relies entirely on renewable energy. CO2 emissions from the Setagaya Line were 1,065 tons in 2017. Using renewable energy will reduce the figure effectively to zero.
#masstransit
Climate solutions aren't about finding a silver bullet (or a single answer). They call for both/and thinking. It's about understanding how a multifaceted approach to climate action can create change, building collective momentum. ⚡
About 1,000
#Australian
engineers and 90 organizations – including large firms and respected industry figures – have signed a declaration to “evaluate all new projects against the environmental necessity to mitigate
#climate
change”.
By
@BenSmee
Retrofitting buildings with insulation is a cost-effective solution for reducing energy required for heating and cooling.
If 54% of existing buildings install insulation, 8.3 gigatons of emissions can be avoided. Read more of our findings:
The notion of “silver bullets” has persistent appeal—“what’s the one big thing we can do?”—but they simply don’t exist for complex problems such as the climate crisis. A whole system of solutions is required.
What happens when solar installations and regenerative grazing are combined?
Agrivoltaics - where solar panels are mounted 7 feet off the ground to let farmers or cows wander underneath.
@Shemkus
explains these
#climatesolutions
@CivilEats
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
-- Jane Goodall
#WednesdayWisdom
A new 60-acre high-tech greenhouse in
#Appalachia
is designed to bring back local, full time jobs while shrinking the environmental footprint of delivering food to cities like Wash DC and Nashville.
#farmingnow
@AppHarvest
"Educating girls, together with family planning, is listed by Project Drawdown as the fifth most impactful solution we have, if we want to limit global heating to 1.5C."
Natural climate solutions let nature do the hard work for the climate by restoring habitats such as forests and wetlands, which absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and help biodiversity thrive.
@StephenWoroniec
talks with
@GeorgeMonbiot
:
While limited in area, coastal wetlands contain large carbon sinks; protecting them would secure an estimated 15 gigatons of carbon, equivalent to over 53 gigatons of CO2 if released into the atmosphere. A Drawdown
#climate
solution.
Building with wood has 2 key climate benefits:
1. Growing trees absorb and sequester carbon, which remains stored in timber construction materials.
2. Producing those materials generates fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cement or steel.
“Greater adoption of a wider array of perennial vegetables could help to address some of the central, interlocking issues of the 21st century: climate change, biodiversity, and nutrition.”
#Drawdown
senior fellow
@EricToensmeier
in
@CivilEats
.