In light of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) special report, released Monday, Drawdown Switzerland confirms plans to support global warming reversal by 2045. “Drawdown, the point in time when the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases begins to decline on a year-to-year basis – can only be achieved globally through the reallocation of $trillions of investments into science-based solutions to capture its $74.4 trillion prize” affirms John Moorhead, President of Drawdown Switzerland.
The Drawdown plan, hailed as “the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming”, lays out 80 science-based solutions that can be executed now, as well as 20 future possibilities or “coming attractions”. “Drawdown’s 80 solutions such as educating girls, refrigeration, geothermal, plant-rich diet, clean cookstoves and peatlands are finely-balanced to avoid, reduce and sequester all greenhouse-gases emitted” said Chad Frischmann, Project Drawdown’s Vice-President & Research Director, “the Exponential Climate Action Roadmap -to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030- and scaling up of Drawdown solutions, in its optimum scenario, could achieve global warming reversal by 2045” he went on to say. The similarities between IPCC’s and Drawdown’s plans are summarized in the table below. “By scaling up food and land-use natural climate solutions and halving emissions by 2030, less or even no energy crops could be needed” Moorhead stated.
“Drawdown focuses on savings in addition to costs,” says Drawdown Switzerland Committee member and Conser Invest Associate Jean Laville. “Drawdown has measured and modelled net savings of $74.4 trillion over the 30 years to 2050 which far outweigh the net costs of $29.6 trillion, albeit not for all solutions.”
Drawdown Switzerland is organizing an awareness-raising event which will explain how existing science-based solutions can reverse global warming with Nobel laureate Professor Jacques Dubochet (UNIL), Project Drawdown’s Chad Frischmann, EPFL’s & Drawdown Switzerland Committee member Dr Francois Vuille and Swiss investors and entrepreneurs at the International School of Geneva’s La Châtaigneraie campus on 13th November 2018. Registration is free on this link.
On 29th November 2018 Drawdown Switzerland will hold its first general assembly in Lausanne, Switzerland. The association is open to all persons that support its goals and membership applications will be accepted from 22nd October onwards. To keep informed go to the www.drawdown.ch website and there are public groups on Linkedin and Facebook you can join.
For comment or to arrange an interview with John Moorhead or other members of the Drawdown committee, contact: Email: [email protected] or phone +41 79 342 8252
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About Drawdown Switzerland
Drawdown Switzerland provides research, information and data on how the scale up of existing science-based climate solutions (technologies, practices and behaviour) reverse global warming and impacts the economy, society and environment. Its mission is to support drawdown – Drawdown is the point in time when the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases begins to decline on a year-to-year basis - by 2040 in Switzerland and 2045 worldwide. Drawdown is an “act-tank”, a not-for-profit organisation which supports positive economic, social and environmental solutions to reach drawdown in Switzerland and the reallocation of $ trillions in Swiss-based investment to Drawdown solutions. Drawdown is a not-for-profit association incorporated under Swiss law in Nyon, Switzerland. Its founding committee includes John Moorhead (President), Damien Friot (Vice-President), Pieter van Tiel (Treasurer), Jean Laville, Mark Halle, and François Vuille.
About Project Drawdown
Project Drawdown is a non-profit organization and coalition of scholars, scientists, entrepreneurs, and advocates from across the globe that is mapping, measuring, modeling, and communicating about a collective array of substantive solutions to global warming, with the goal of reaching drawdown.
Drawdown is the point in time when the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases begins to decline on a year-to-year basis. Project Drawdown’s research program has developed realistic, solution-specific models, technical assessments, and policy memos projecting the financial and climate impacts of existing solutions deployed at scale over the next thirty years.
About International School of Geneva
Founded in 1924, by local pedagogues and officials of the League of Nations and the International Labour Organization, Ecolint now comprises eight schools, on three impressive campuses in the Geneva area. Around 4500 students are taught by over 500 teachers, making Ecolint not only the oldest international school in the world, but also the one of the largest. Ecolint remains as true today to its founding values as it was in 1924 with an unwavering commitment to its mission to educate for peace and to prepare students for membership of communities that are socially and culturally diverse, for citizenship, and for engagement with the political, ethical and environmental challenges of their times. Resolutely not-for-profit, Ecolint prides itself on its long history of student-centred, pedagogical innovation - including being the birthplace of the International Baccalaureate - and its role in creating world citizens, as well as the outstanding academic, artistic and sporting achievements of its students, staff and alumni.