Tool name and developer

Drawdown Explorer is developed by Project Drawdown, a nonprofit climate-research organisation.

Target audience

Policymakers, researchers, investors, consultants, educators and businesses seeking climate-mitigation strategies.

Core purpose

It compiles and ranks climate solutions by emissions impact, cost, deployment readiness, and co-benefits. Users can filter by sector, region or criteria, and drill into metrics, maps, and deployment scenarios.

Relevance for finance professionals

• Enables comparison of mitigation projects by cost, scale and timeline.
• Supports scenario analysis and due diligence for climate-aligned investments.
• Provides data to inform portfolio decarbonisation, green bond strategies and ESG risk assessments.
• Helps identify sectors or geographies with high mitigation potential for capital deployment.