With its vast influence and capital, the private sector has an opportunity—and obligation—to go beyond “net zero.” By working with partners across sectors and teams, we’re bringing more skills, resources, and people into the climate movement to create a wave of ambitious climate action.
Our Purpose
For Employees
Drawdown Labs enables every employee—not just those with “sustainability” in their title—to bring their climate passion to work and move their companies faster. We provide climate-concerned employees with access to workshops on high-impact climate action, as well as opportunities for community-building across organizations and the shaping of employee resources.
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Our foundational employee guide: Climate Solutions at Work
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Action-oriented talks: “No matter where we work, every job is a climate job now” and “Every Job is a Climate Job”
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Inspirational employee stories: GreenBiz series
For Corporate Decision Makers
We’re raising the bar on climate leadership, providing a new framework for action that utilizes the private sector’s social, political, financial, and employee power. Drawdown Labs Business Coalition members receive benchmarking and support in aligning with this new framework, stay up to date on best practices, and speak as a unified voice for climate advocacy.
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A new standard: the Drawdown-Aligned Business Framework
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Articles on redefining corporate sustainability: “We need a new definition of corporate climate leadership” and “Will corporations choose climate transformation or climate status quo?”
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Coming together for climate policy: New York Times print ad
For Investors and Philanthropies
Capital needs to shift swiftly away from carbon-intensive activities and toward climate solutions if the world is to reach drawdown. We research and promote drawdown-aligned investment and philanthropic strategies, and convene climate-leading investors and philanthropies to model a new standard.
In 2023, we launched the Drawdown Labs Capital Coalition which will help philanthropists and investors around the world by elevating the scientific rigor of their portfolios and significantly increasing investments in the most effective climate solutions. This program aims to influence tens of billions of dollars in climate investments, accelerating the world towards effective climate action.
Every business must now ask not only “how can we reduce our emissions as quickly as possible,” but also “how can we use our full resources, scale, influence, the passion of our employees, and our broader community to help build a world where all living things can thrive?”
Jamie Beck Alexander, Director, Drawdown Labs
Drawdown Labs Business Coalition
We aggregate the influence of Drawdown Labs Business Coalition members to accelerate the investments, policies, and innovations needed for transformative private sector climate action. By engaging their employees and striving for a higher standard, coalition members help show the world a more expansive vision for corporate climate leadership.
Allbirds is a sustainable footwear and apparel company focused on using natural materials to transform both their products and the ecosystems from which these materials are sourced. Allbirds brings to Drawdown Labs the understanding that what we measure, we can reduce, using the power of life cycle analysis to understand how its business can drive emissions reductions.
Askov Finlayson is a climate-positive winter outerwear company on a mission to Keep The North Cold. Askov Finlayson goes beyond net zero to embrace true climate accountability throughout their business using the social cost of carbon, then donates 110% of their footprint annually to support solutions to the climate crisis—helping to protect the very thing their products are designed to celebrate.
Aspiration, Drawdown Labs’ first-ever financial services partner, enables customers to keep their deposits out of fossil fuels, automatically plant trees with their card purchases, and track business and personal Planet & People impact scores as they shop. Aspiration shows that people can use their spending and saving to achieve meaningful climate impact at scale.
Copia is a champion of Project Drawdown’s first climate solution: reducing food waste. By improving technology and logistics, Copia is helping businesses redistribute high-quality excess food to feed people in need, showing the private sector that addressing both the climate crisis and social inequities can be integral to a business model.
Etsy is a global marketplace for unique and creative goods, dedicated to keeping commerce human. Its environmental impact work aims to build long-term resilience by progressing towards its Net Zero promise, running sustainable operations, and addressing the impact of its marketplaces while establishing them as destinations for conscious consumers.
General Mills, a global manufacturer of branded consumer foods, has the reach to create large-scale impact in the food and agriculture industry beyond its own operational footprint. As a Drawdown Labs partner, General Mills brings with it its holistic focus on regenerative agriculture that strengthens both ecosystems and communities.
Google has the scale, reach, and resources to go big on sustainability. They don’t stop at making their own business and operations carbon-free—they’re also focused on greening the electrical grid and sharing their technology and funding with others. Google is enabling its one billion users to act on climate change by integrating new sustainability features directly into their products.
IDEO is a global design company and an early partner in crafting the Drawdown Labs structure. With an emphasis on forward-thinking and human-centered program design, IDEO brings a foundation of innovation and creativity to Project Drawdown's work with the private sector.
Impossible Foods is driving the transition away from beef, making plant-based meats to end the greenhouse gas emissions and land degradation associated with industrial meat production. Impossible Foods embodies the Drawdown Solution of shifting to plant-rich diets, helping consumers make a simple switch to more sustainable food options.
Intuit is a financial software company looking beyond its own operations to create a positive impact on global climate, largely by looping small businesses into the climate change solution conversation. As a business with wide reach and millions of users, Intuit is innovating on climate with its employees, customers, and communities.
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network focused on creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. This means providing its members with the tools, resources, and community needed for this transition by spotlighting green economic trends, connecting green job seekers and employers, providing sustainability skills training, and partnering with environmental innovators.
Lyft is at the forefront of the global shift to transportation-as-a-service. Its transportation network includes the largest shared mobility network in the United States and brings together rideshare, bikes, scooters, car rentals and transit all in one app—providing access to critical low-carbon modes of transportation to improve people’s lives.
OLIPOP is revolutionizing the soda industry with health-conscious beverages. With an active customer base keen on wellness, as well as a growing influence on supply chain partners, OLIPOP is uniquely positioned to nudge its community toward climate action. As a Drawdown Labs partner, OLIPOP is aiming to catalyze both individual and collective change for a healthier planet.
Pinterest is a daily visual inspiration platform people around the world use to shop products personalized to their taste, find ideas to do offline, and discover inspiring content. With 450 million global monthly active users, an engaged employee base, and its climate misinformation policy, Pinterest is committed to inspiring action—across its platform, within its operations, and throughout its communities—to build a healthier planet.
R&DE Stanford Dining is a leading university partner on many aspects of complex global food systems—from equitable supply chains, climate-smart dining, and regenerative agriculture, to reducing food waste and shifting diets towards plant-forward options. Stanford Dining demonstrates that sustainable, ethical, and healthy food systems can be deployed at scale, while simultaneously inspiring the next generation to improve how Earth’s precious resources are managed.
As a global food services and hospitality provider, Sodexo knows its reach comes with a responsibility to positively impact the environmental, social, and economic systems in which it operates. Sodexo takes a partnership-driven approach while serving millions of people daily by decarbonizing its operations, developing equitable supply chains, shifting to low-carbon meals, and reducing food waste.
Tradewater is a mission-driven B-Corp and a global leader in projects that permanently prevent the release of potent non-CO2 gases from entering our atmosphere. This work plays a central role in pulling the emergency brake on catastrophic climate change and buys time for longer-term decarbonization strategies to take effect.
Trane Technologies is an industrial manufacturer creating efficient indoor environments and climate-controlled transportation solutions. Trane’s goal is to reduce their customers’ carbon footprint by one gigaton of Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) by 2030, applying climate solutions in the industry, buildings, and electricity sectors beyond their own operations.
Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Beyond greening their own operational footprint, Unity is helping decarbonize the gaming industry as a whole and utilizing new technology to drive climate action in the real world.
Wana, a leading cannabis edibles company, is dedicated to preserving a livable climate as part of their vision to serve the world and enhance people's lives. Wana is embedding climate action at the early stages of their sustainability journey, making operational changes to reduce their environmental impact, and taking a leadership position on climate-safe business practices to drive change within the nascent cannabis industry.
Implementation partners* are non-profit and other climate solutions-focused collaborators that help Drawdown Labs execute and enhance our activities with Drawdown Labs Business Coalition members. Each implementation partner is an expert in some aspect of Drawdown Labs’ work, such as emissions reductions, climate policy advocacy, and business model transformation—supplementing Drawdown Labs knowledge and operational capacity to carry out these initiatives to their full potential.
Carbon Collective Investing is the first online investment advisor 100% focused on solving climate change. They create sustainable investment portfolios for individuals and employer 401(k) plans that divest from fossil fuels, reinvest in companies building climate solutions, and pressure the rest to decarbonize.
Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) works with changemakers worldwide who are turning the ideas of Doughnut Economics into transformative action for systemic change. DEAL is focused on turning ideas into action, and on learning with and from others through experiments in co-creating a new economy.
Evergreen Action is working to put bold climate action at the top of America's agenda, leveraging the power of business and beyond to advance policies that will scale clean energy and climate technologies at the pace necessary during this critical moment in history.
Rewiring America is a nonprofit organization focused on electrifying communities. They work to ensure electrification is a key component of business emissions reduction and advocacy strategies.
Seneca Environmental is a global renewable energy project management and delivery company working to accelerate the transition to renewable energy at speed and scale. A tribally owned company, Seneca Environmental provides income to support the Seneca Nation, a tribe with a deep legacy and vision for the future.
The Outdoor Policy Outfit (TOPO) builds systemic solutions to solve critical environmental challenges. After discovering the hidden climate impact of corporate cash and investments, TOPO is developing breakthrough strategies and tools that enable companies to transform their financial management into a vehicle for climate progress.
* Designation as an implementation partner does not constitute endorsement of, or formal partnership with, Drawdown Labs Business Coalition members.
Climate Solutions at Work

The Drawdown-Aligned Business Framework
This framework highlights key leverage points and climate actions that all businesses must tap to help the world achieve drawdown quickly, safely, and equitably. To be drawdown-aligned, companies must apply their social, political, financial, and employee power to scaling climate solutions we have in-hand today. Click here to see the full framework.
Everyone has a role to play
The Drawdown Labs Job Function Action Guides will help employees understand how their roles are critical in addressing the climate crisis, as well as implement high-impact solutions and navigate key considerations for taking action inside the workplace.
Drawdown Labs Capital Coalition
The Drawdown Capital Coalition is a brand new program for philanthropists and investors that aims to guide billions of dollars of private capital toward strategic, science-based climate solutions that will yield the greatest benefit in the least amount of time. We are grateful to our Founding Partners, some of which may be found below. Please reach out to learn more about how you or your organization can join and become a member today.
The Bentley Environmental Foundation exemplifies Bentley’s commitment to sustainability and bold innovation that has always been part of their brand’s ethos, to help solve some of the most important challenges facing humanity today.
Spectrum Impact is a family office committed to solving large-scale societal problems with novel solutions. They allocate the for-profit and not-for-profit pools of capital in a manner consistent with the objective of optimizing the financial, societal, and environmental returns on the investments made.
Toniic is a global community of over 500 high-net wealth individuals, family offices, and foundation asset owners who are seeking a deeper impact in investments, and in their lives. Their members include active impact investors, as well as those who are just beginning their journey. They provide peer-sharing opportunities, educational resources, and curated investments to their members, who use Toniic to amplify their positive net impact.
The Wana Brands Foundation (WBF) was established by Wana Brands CEO Nancy Whiteman to provide funding and other support for a wide range of charitable initiatives. A separate entity from the Wana Brands Corporation, the WBF focuses on providing life essentials to underserved communities all over the world.
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Drawdown Labs Business Coalition Criteria
Drawdown Labs Business Coalition members meet science, goal-setting, and advocacy benchmarks needed to meet the climate crisis at scale. Coalition members:
- have science-based, independently verified scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets aligned with 1.5°C
- are committed to acting within and outside business operations to accelerate decarbonization of the global economy
- want to go beyond being “Paris compliant” to proactively help the world achieve drawdown, quickly, safely, and equitably by aligning their business with the Drawdown-Aligned Business Framework
- don’t lobby against climate action, climate policy, or climate science
- make an annual contribution to Project Drawdown.
Please contact us at labs@drawdown.org to inquire about Coalition membership.
In addition to businesses, our implementation partners:
- share a North Star of helping the world achieve drawdown, quickly, safely, and with equity at the heart of the transition;
- assist in supporting Drawdown Labs business partners and the broader business community to pull key climate leverage points and rapidly accelerate the deployment of climate solutions;
- collaborate on content creation and cross-promotion to elevate private-sector climate action, with equity, speed and scale as top priorities;
- share a non-negotiable commitment to not lobby against climate action, climate policy, or climate science or engage in climate misinformation.
Publications and Media
Drawdown Labs shares its work through a wide range of media, from videos and webinars to mainstream media contributions and stand-alone publications.
We’d Like to Hear from you
Are you an employee, corporate decision maker, investor, or philanthropy looking to take climate action or learn more about partnerships? We want to hear from you! Fill out the form below or contact us as labs@drawdown.org.