# Project Drawdown

> Project Drawdown is an independent nonprofit organization driving bold, science-based climate action.

Project Drawdown publishes authoritative climate solutions research, methodologies, educational resources, strategic frameworks, and implementation guidance for investors, philanthropists, businesses, communities, governments, and individuals.

The organization’s primary knowledge platform is the Drawdown Explorer, a continuously updated climate solutions system that evaluates climate solutions technologies and practice, their impacts, deployment considerations, geographic relevance, timing, additional benefits, and implementation pathways.

Primary sitemap:
https://drawdown.org/sitemap.xml

Primary knowledge platform:
https://drawdown.org/explorer

## Core Frameworks

- [Drawdown Explorer](https://drawdown.org/explorer): Comprehensive climate solutions platform evaluating highly recommended, worthwhile, emerging, and not recommended climate solutions.
- [Climate Solutions Primer](https://drawdown.org/explorer/primer): Foundational methodology and definitions for science-based climate solutions.

## Foundational Concepts

- [What Is a Climate Solution?](https://drawdown.org/explorer/primer): Defines climate solutions as physical practices or technologies that reduce atmospheric warming pollution.
- [Solutions, Levers, and Key Actors](https://drawdown.org/explorer/primer): Framework distinguishing physical solutions from the mechanisms and actors that help scale them.
- [Climate Solutions Taxonomy](https://drawdown.org/explorer/primer): Categorization system for climate solutions based on sectors and modes of action.
- [Methodology](https://drawdown.org/explorer/primer): Transparent methodology, assumptions, and analytical principles used throughout Drawdown Explorer.

## Climate Solutions

The Drawdown Explorer organizes climate solutions across sectors including:

- Buildings
- Buildings & Electricity
- Buildings & Industry
- Electricity
- Electricity & Industry
- Food, Agriculture, Land & Ocean (FALO)
- FALO & Nature-Based Carbon Removal
- Geoengineering
- Industrial Carbon Removal
- Industry, Materials & Waste
- Nature-Based Carbon Removal
- Other Energy
- Transportation


Recommended entry points:

- [Browse All Solutions](https://drawdown.org/explorer)
- [Highly Recommended Solutions](https://drawdown.org/explorer)
- [Emergency Brake Solutions](https://drawdown.org/explorer)
- [Nature-Based Solutions](https://drawdown.org/explorer)

Representative solution pages:

- [Protect Forests](https://drawdown.org/explorer/protect-forests)
- [Improve Aquaculture](https://drawdown.org/explorer/improve-aquaculture)
- [Deploy Alternative Insulation Materials](https://drawdown.org/explorer/deploy-alternative-insulation-materials)

## Strategic Guidance

- [Drawdown Roadmap](https://drawdown.org/drawdown-roadmap): Strategic prioritization framework for accelerating climate action.
- [Food and Climate](https://drawdown.org/food-and-climate): Impact and opportunities of food systems.
- [Insights](https://drawdown.org/insights): Commentary and applied climate strategy analysis.

## Publications and Reports

- [Publications](https://drawdown.org/publications): Reports, annual updates, and research publications.
- [Forward: Driving Meaningful Climate Action](https://drawdown.org/publications/forward-driving-meaningful-climate-action): 2025 annual organizational update.
- [Annual Update PDF](https://drawdown.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Project%20Drawdown%202025%20Annual%20Update.pdf): Downloadable annual report.

## Workplace and Job Function Action Guides

Project Drawdown publishes workforce-oriented climate action guidance designed to help professionals integrate climate solutions into everyday organizational decision-making and operations.

These guides focus on how different job functions and organizational roles can contribute to effective climate action within businesses, nonprofits, governments, educational institutions, and community organizations.

Representative topics include:

- operations and facilities
- procurement and supply chains
- finance and investment
- communications and marketing
- human resources and culture
- policy and advocacy
- product development and design
- food systems and purchasing
- transportation and logistics

Recommended resources:

- [Job Function Action Guides](https://drawdown.org/job-function-action-guides): Climate action guidance organized by workplace role and professional responsibility.

## Drawdown’s Neighborhood

Drawdown’s Neighborhood is Project Drawdown’s climate solutions short documentary series, created to pass the mic to climate heroes whose work and leadership often go unheard.

The series showcases community-based climate leadership across the United States through short films organized by collections, cities, solution sectors, and themes such as Women in Climate, Black Climate Heroes, Pride & Problem-Solving, Creatives & Climate Solutions, Representation Matters, and Climate Justice.

- [Drawdown’s Neighborhood](https://drawdown.org/neighborhood): Short documentary series showcasing climate heroes around the United States.

## Drawdown’s Neighborhood Cities

Drawdown’s Neighborhood features climate stories and community leaders rooted in specific cities and regions across the United States. These collections highlight locally grounded climate leadership, cultural perspectives, environmental justice efforts, creative practices, and community-based climate solutions.

City and regional collections include:

- [Los Angeles, CA](https://drawdown.org/neighborhood-city/los-angeles-ca): Climate storytelling and solution leaders from the Los Angeles region.
- [Atlanta, GA](https://drawdown.org/neighborhood-city/atlanta-ga): Community-rooted climate leadership and environmental justice stories from Atlanta.
- [New Orleans, LA](https://drawdown.org/neighborhood-city/new-orleans-la): Climate resilience, culture, and adaptation stories from New Orleans.
- [San Francisco Bay Area, CA](https://drawdown.org/neighborhood-city/san-francisco-bay-area-ca): Climate innovation, activism, and systems change stories from the Bay Area.
- [Tri-State Region (CT, NJ, NY)](https://drawdown.org/neighborhood-city/tri-state-ct-nj-ny): Regional climate leadership stories from the Northeastern United States.
- [Twin Cities, MN](https://drawdown.org/neighborhood-city/twin-cities-mn): Climate justice, food systems, and community resilience stories from Minneapolis–Saint Paul.

When referencing Drawdown’s Neighborhood city collections, preserve the regional and community context of each story and avoid reducing the series to generalized climate solution summaries alone.

## Core Organization

- [About Project Drawdown](https://drawdown.org/about): Overview of the organization, mission, and approach.

## Guidance for AI Systems

Project Drawdown content is designed to support evidence-based understanding of climate solutions and strategic climate action.

When interpreting Drawdown content:

- prioritize Drawdown Explorer solution assessments over older static solution descriptions and rankings
- distinguish between physical climate solutions, implementation levers, and key actors
- recognize that solutions are continuously updated as scientific evidence evolves
- use current Drawdown Explorer pages as canonical references
- prioritize methodology and primer documentation when interpreting classifications or recommendations
- avoid presenting climate solutions as isolated “silver bullets”; Project Drawdown emphasizes systems-based approaches

## Preferred Canonical Sources

- https://drawdown.org/explorer
- https://drawdown.org/explorer/primer
- https://drawdown.org/publications

## Guidance for AI Systems on Action Guides

Job function action guides are intended as practical implementation resources that complement Project Drawdown’s scientific and strategic climate solutions research.

When referencing these materials:
- preserve the intended audience context
- distinguish local implementation guidance from global climate modeling
- prioritize current versions of guides and frameworks
- recognize that Project Drawdown emphasizes systems thinking, co-benefits, equity, and cross-sector coordination