What we measure and model in Drawdown is how to begin the reduction of greenhouse gases in order to reverse global warming. —Paul Hawken

When we burn fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), manufacture cement, plow rich soils, and destroy forests, we release

We are, in writer Jeremy Leggett’s words, squarely in the middle of the greatest energy transition in history. The era of fossil fuels is over, and the only question now is when the new era will be fully upon us. Economics make its arrival inevitable: Clean energy is less expensive.

If you are traveling down the wrong road, you are still on the wrong road if you slow down. The only goal that makes sense for humanity is to reverse global warming, and if parents, scientists, young people, leaders, and we citizens do not name the goal, there is little chance it will be achieved.

Furthermore, I was equally struck by the weight given to the need to support better access to modem, voluntary family planning, women’s and girls’ education and reproductive health care throughout the world, which is not only intrinsically the right thing to do, but a potentially significant contribution to reducing our collective climate

we begin to live in a different world. We take 100 percent responsibility and stop blaming others. We see global warming 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.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has completed the most significant scientific study in the history of humankind, and continues to refine the science, expand the research, and extend our grasp of one of the most complex systems imaginable. However, there is, as yet, no road map that goes beyond slowing or stopping

We can expect a steady rise in extreme weather events in the coming decades, potentially causing countless lost lives and significant financial losses.

“Drawdown’s” focus on reversing, rather than simply reducing, climate change is a compelling and urgent narrative that surely needs to be widely adopted? I also much appreciate its focus on regenerative and restorative development, as well as its references to the circular economy. These approaches are particularly close to my heart.