The report also found that these investments will save US$98 trillion and $140 trillion respectively, suggesting that practices and technologies implemented to reduce greenhouse gasses will more than pay for themselves. ![]() Their new research suggests that, between 20, an investment of US$15.6 trillion would be required to limit global warming to 2C, as set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) targets, and an investment of $23.6US trillion would be needed to limit warming to 1.5C. The recent Project Drawdown solutions arrive as part of an updated analysis. Following on from the success of Drawdown, Hawken published a second book: ‘ Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation’. ![]() Project Drawdown emerged as a leading resource for information and insights about climate solutions after the publication of Hawken’s 2017 Bestselling book ‘Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming’. In addition to the database of solutions, Drawdown also runs Drawdown Labs – which works to advance the next level of business leadership on climate solutions, as well as Drawdown Lift – which aims to deepen collective understanding of the links between climate change solutions and poverty alleviation, especially in lower and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The research from Project Drawdown illustrates how the world can reach drawdown by mid-century via the use of currently existing and available climate solutions. Every solution reduced greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering emissions that are already in the atmosphere, and all rely on extensive analysis of the scientific literature and sophisticated modelling. Lab has risen to over 3,000 lbs/week in the last two weeks.Project Drawdown’s research and analysis focus on solutions that are currently available, able to grow in scale, financially viable, have a net positive impact and are quantifiable. Meanwhile….with the Spring semester in full swing, the amount of food composted at the S.C.R.A.P. Stay tuned for updates! Data: 2/14 – 2/28 If passed, the bill would be a significant step forward in advancing organics recycling and compost utilization in the state. institutions like colleges and universities) to source separate and recycle food waste. In New Jersey, the next steps around composting will be decided tomorrow as the state senate will be voting on legislation that would require large food waste generators (e.g. However, Project Drawdown sends an optimistic message – the reversal of global warming is both environmentally and economically achievable by mid-century if we act now and scale up already practical climate solutions like composting. As such, compost not only reduces carbon emissions by the aforementioned amount, but shares emissions savings through many of the other climate solutions in Project Drawdown by acting as a carbon sink or “sponge” that can soak up emissions currently in the atmosphere and limit the impacts of climate change which is already causing devastating wildfires, flooding, and droughts to name a few. ![]() When the end-use of compost is considered, composting is indirectly tied to a dozen or more solutions presented in Project Drawdown from green roofs and conservation agriculture, to plant-based diets.Ĭompost is a natural way to provide nutrients to plants to enhance productivity while storing carbon in soils. What is not as talked about nor accounted for in the analysis on composting by Project Drawdown, is the benefit of applying compost to soil. However the emission savings from landfill diversion is only one benefit of composting. The study found that composting organic waste versus landfilling it can reduce more than 50% of carbon dioxide-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions, for a total of 2.1 gigatons between now (2020) and 2050 if climate change is curbed to a 2 degree Celsius rise in the average global temperature. Given that one third of food produced in the world is wasted (along with the associated resources and carbon emissions), it is clear why reducing food waste ranks so high, but why is the ranking for composting relatively low on the list?
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