Interactive scenarios for climate solutions
What if we wasted less food and installed more solar power? Drove less and built more with timber? How much can we cut greenhouse-gas emissions in Utrecht by 2030? Let's find out! When all 19 solutions are set to 'Ambitious', emissions in Utrecht fall from 7.8 Mt CO2eq in 2018 to 2.2 Mton in 2030 - a reduction of more than 70% vs. the 2018 baseline year. The capacity of ecosystems to absorb carbon then increases by 0.44 Mton. Build your own custom scenarios to discover how each solution helps move Utrecht toward decarbonisation.
Getting started with the data
The Carbon Reduction Visualizer is an interactive chart based on the latest data from the research team of the Drawdown Europe Research Association (DERA). It lets you project how emissions decline depending on how quickly the 19 Drawdown Utrecht climate solutions are scaled up.
How do you use the Carbon Reduction Visualizer?
Browse the list of 19 solutions in the panel to the right of the chart.
Set each solution to 'Plausible' or 'Ambitious' to see its potential under different scenarios.
Set each solution back to 'Baseline' to start over.
How do you build a regenerative climate plan?
Select the combination of relevant solutions.
Experiment with different combinations to build your plan.
How do you read the Carbon Reduction Visualizer?
Baseline - Shown by the black line. It projects greenhouse-gas emissions at provincial level up to 2030, assuming current emissions (2018 baseline) continue and solutions are not scaled up.
Plausible - This scenario projects how emissions fall when solutions are scaled up to ambitious but achievable levels.
Ambitious - this scenario projects how emissions fall when solutions are scaled up to a maximum level based on an ambitious adoption rate, drawing on existing examples from around the world.
The Carbon Reduction Visualizer in Excel
Click here for a text-based alternative to the Carbon Reduction Visualizer, replacing the visual element. The text alternative is provided in Google Sheets and is clickable for the same experience.
