Drawdown may refer to: * ''Drawdown'' (book), 2017 book by Paul Hawken about climate change mitigation *

Drawdown (climate) Climate drawdown refers to the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Drawdown is a milestone in reversing climate change and eventually reducing global ave ...

, the point at which greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere begin to decline *

Drawdown (economics) The drawdown is the measure of the decline from a historical peak in some variable (typically the cumulative profit or total open equity of a financial trading strategy). Somewhat more formally, if X(t), \; t \ge 0 is a stochastic process with X(0) ...

, decline in the value of an investment, below its all-time high *

Drawdown (hydrology) In water-related science and engineering, there are two similar but distinct definitions in use for the word drawdown: * In subsurface hydrogeology, drawdown is the reduction in hydraulic head observed at a well in an aquifer, typically due to pum ...

, a lowering of a reservoir or a change in hydraulic head in an aquifer, typically due to pumping a well *

Drawdown card Drawdown cards are used for testing paints and coating A coating is a covering that is applied to the surface of an object, usually referred to as the substrate. The purpose of applying the coating may be decorative, functional, or both. Coati ...

, used for testing paints and coatings through wet film preparation *

Drawdown chart Drawdown charts are rectangular pieces of non-fluorescent paper which are used to test a variety of coating properties. These properties include opacity, spreading rate, penetration, and flow & leveling behavior. This non-fluorescent material ha ...

, paper used to test various coating properties *

Income drawdown Income drawdown is a method withdrawing benefits from a UK Registered Pension Scheme. In theory, it is available under any money purchase pension scheme. However, it is, in practice, rarely offered by occupational pensions and is therefore gener ...

, a method withdrawing benefits from a UK Registered Pension Scheme

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