With our planet heating, climates changing radically, and savage consequences accelerating, every organization must adapt by changing how it does business. With climate change in mind, the new Project Drawdown document "Climate Solutions at Work" can be a powerful springboard for elaborating an essential internal change: Developing a strong, productive culture of sustainability.

For various reasons, this type of organizational change — culture generally, and sustainability cultures in particular — is especially challenging to pull off. Culture change requires organization-wide leadership and engagement throughout the company. Second, sustainability requires substantially bigger and faster steps in new directions. Third, maintaining and accelerating efforts over time will be at least as imperative as quick early steps. Due to many countervailing forces, it feels like the nearer the sustainability destination, the more we're slip-sliding away.

It will take a compelling culture to sustain sustainability, nonstop and indefinitely, as needed.

Thankfully, good things are happening that can pave the way for dramatic progress. Public opinion and CEO concerns are trending in helpful directions; the fossil fuel industry faces substantial pressures from lawsuits, investors, markets, and other sources; and journalistic coverage is improving and holds untapped potential to turn the tide.

Meanwhile, tailor-made for GreenBiz readers, Project Drawdown’s new guide will help organizations and leaders rethink and kickstart higher-leverage climate action.

Project Drawdown's research indicates that drawdown — the point at which atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations stop climbing and begin declining steadily — is achievable by mid-century if we make the best use of all climate solutions available today.

Read the full article about shaping climate solutions by Tom Bateman at GreenBiz.