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 ...

, 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 coatings through wet film preparation. Black and white cards are used to measure both opacity and contrast ratio The contrast ratio (CR) is a property of a display system, defined as the ratio of ...

, 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 has ...

, 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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