Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming is a 2017 book written, created, and edited by Paul Hawken. It focuses on ways to reduce the effects of climate change. Other writers include Katharine Wilkinson. The foreword was written by Tom Steyer for the hardback edition and by Prince Charles for the paperback edition.

The book organizes solutions into broad categories: energy, food, women and girls, buildings and cities, land use, transport, materials, and "coming attractions." It lists 100 possible solutions and ranks them based on how much they could reduce greenhouse gases. Each solution includes cost estimates and short descriptions.

The Guardian reports that Paul Hawken has influenced efforts to make businesses more environmentally friendly. Companies like Interface and Autodesk supported the book’s creation. The book was meant to be paired with an online database called Project Drawdown, which would collect and organize different types of solutions.

Reception

The book Drawdown has been a bestseller in the New York Times and has received good reviews. For example, Kirkus Reviews described the book as "an optimistic program for getting out of our current mess."

A video from April 2017 on C-SPAN explained that the book is "a collection of policies, plans, and active programs to reduce carbon emissions not controlled by the federal government." In the video, Mr. Hawken said, "the reason we can say 'the most comprehensive plan ever proposed' is that no one's ever proposed a plan… which is sort of astonishing when you think about it." According to an article in Vox, "until 2017, there was no real way for people in general to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have."