Introducing the Drawdown Explorer

Stopping the climate crisis requires more than a passive list of solutions, which is why yesterday, in front of a packed house at the Nest Climate Campus during Climate Week NYC, we launched our most ground-breaking project ever: Drawdown Explorer. 

Built upon trillions of data points and thousands of hours of analysis by scientific experts from around the world, the Drawdown Explorer is the ultimate climate solutions platform, providing decision-makers with key insights and actionable localized intelligence on the most effective climate solutions – and highlighting powerful opportunities for scaling them globally.

“We need to focus on the most effective, science-based solutions that truly move the needle on climate change,” Project Drawdown Executive Director Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., says. “We built the Drawdown Explorer to provide the insights necessary for better, smarter climate action, ensuring every dollar, every resource, and every moment brings us closer to a world without a climate crisis.”

The Drawdown Explorer moves beyond just scale and cost to include detailed analysis on the speed of action, geography, and additional benefits of climate solutions across all relevant sectors, empowering decision-makers around the world to:

• advance emergency brake solutions that can rapidly reduce emissions
• focus on geographic hotspots to maximize impact
• identify benefit multipliers that simultaneously improve both human and environmental well-being

Moreover, the open-access online platform offers specific recommendations on how various actors, including policymakers, investors, business leaders, and more, can best unlock and accelerate solutions given their unique resources and capabilities. To make these recommendations more actionable, all of the underlying data, methodologies, visualizations, and interactive maps are freely available and downloadable.

Explore a world of climate solutions at drawdown.org/explorer

Here’s How You Can Help!

1. Use the platform. Check out the Drawdown Explorer for insights into how to advance effective climate solutions and let us know how you’re using it.
2. Spread the word. Share the Drawdown Explorer and the video trailer across your social channels – and be sure to tag @ProjectDrawdown! 
3. Forward this email. Let your colleagues, friends, and family know you’re excited about the Drawdown Explorer by forwarding them this email. 

What People Are Saying

“The Drawdown Explorer is an incredibly useful tool for anyone seeking to learn what they can do to help solve the climate crisis. Carefully based on the best data and science, it shows which actions can make the most difference, but also which widely-promoted actions don’t help much or even make climate change worse.”

— John Sterman, Ph.D., Director, MIT System Dynamics Group

“The Drawdown Explorer provides comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information on the most important climate solutions. It is an invaluable resource for individuals, businesses, and donors who want to make a real difference in helping to address climate change and its impact on people and the environment.”

 — Walt Reid, Ph.D., Climate and Sustainable Development Advisor