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Drawdown

Greenhouse gas drawdown focuses on removing excess carbon already in the atmosphere, helping return the climate toward safer conditions.

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The Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef faces rapid decline; urgent, targeted actions are needed to restore ecosystems, safeguard species, and ensure survival.
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Climate Reality Check
Warming beyond 1.5°C is imminent; only emergency-scale action can prevent catastrophic, irreversible, self-reinforcing climate impacts this century.
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Climate Code Red
This urgent call for immediate climate action reshaped global approaches and framed climate change as an emergency.
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Papers
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A Safe Climate Means Cooling the Planet
A safe climate requires cutting emissions, removing excess carbon and investigating safe ways to cool the planet.
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Searching for climate action’s missing goal
1.5°C should be treated as a risk threshold, not an endpoint.
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Accelerating Climate Disruption
The strategy to reduce, remove and repair.
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Articles
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Cooling the Planet: A Third Lever
Climate strategy needs credible research into cooling options.
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Podcasts
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2025 in Climate Review
AMOC instability, the risks of overshoot, and Emergency Briefings.
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Cooling a Livable Planet
Outdated risk models and delayed action are pushing us toward dangerous climate thresholds.
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Projects
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Fund Climate Cooling Research
The Case For Applied Cooling Research
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Advocacy
Safe Climate Plan Project
A Whole-of-Society Framework for Restoring Safe Climate Conditions
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Strategic Capacity Project
Building the Conditions for Stronger Climate Responses
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Australia should join the global effort to cool the planet and fulfill its Antarctic responsibilities
Calls on the Australian Government to help lead a global mission to restore safe climate conditions, including urgent research into safe short-term planetary cooling.
11 July 2025
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Press
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How bad can climate damage get? Worse than you imagine
more extreme weather and natural disasters - driven by a hotter climate - are an indication, because the past is no longer a reliable guide to the future.
23 June 2025
Drawdown Energy Efficiency
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Climate Code Red: In Conversation
Transitioning Australia entirely to renewable energy systems and transform our economy in ten years.
7 August 2008
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Contributors
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Brendan Condon

Climate, Carbon Drawdown and Ecological Restoration Specialist

Practitioner developing and delivering practical approaches to carbon drawdown, zero-carbon development, ecological restoration and climate change.

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Adrian Hindes

Earth Systems Analyst and Researcher

Studies SRM, CDR, tipping points, risks, ethics, governance and impacts.

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