What are you working in service of?

The author asserts that every job is a climate job and that private sector actors must use existing business practices to scale solutions to match the scope of the climate crisis. The text highlights the need for deep systems change in energy, food, financial, and transportation systems, and introduces the Drawdown Roadmap and Drawdown Labs' frameworks as tools to orient action and raise standards for corporate climate leadership.

• There is a growing recognition among business leaders that current energy, food, financial, and transportation systems are unviable due to visible climatic impacts and other global instabilities, leading to increased interest in deep systems change.
• Private sector actors are capable of scaling climate solutions through all job functions and existing business practices, which is necessary to address the scale of the crisis.
• Drawdown Labs is developing the Drawdown Roadmap, new taxonomies for climate work, and science-based frameworks to guide corporate climate leadership and accelerate the transition to new systems without overshooting planetary boundaries.

APA

Otte, T. (2023). What are you working in service of? Project Drawdown. https://drawdown.org/insights/what-are-you-working-in-service-of

Chicago

Otte, Ted. What are you working in service of? Project Drawdown, 2023. https://drawdown.org/insights/what-are-you-working-in-service-of.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Otte |first1=Ted |title=What are you working in service of? |publisher=Project Drawdown |date=18 May 2023 |url=https://drawdown.org/insights/what-are-you-working-in-service-of |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{otte2023what, author = {Otte, Ted}, title = {{What are you working in service of?}}, publisher = {Project Drawdown}, year = {2023}, month = may, url = {https://drawdown.org/insights/what-are-you-working-in-service-of}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }