The word "drawdown" means the reduction or decrease in something, usually in relation to finance or military operations. It refers to the process of using or spending less of a particular resource or asset over time. Full definition
There is no carbon budget left for 1.5 °C climate warming target, which means that to achieve this outcome every tonne of emissions must be matched by a tonne of drawdown of atmospheric carbon from now on. (resilience.org)
As a result, we made a screener that provides six or eight different lens (from maximum drawdown in each measurement period to recovery times, Ulcer indexes and a simple «risk group» snapshot) through which to judge what you're getting into. (mutualfundobserver.com)
(They also experience maximum drawdown of -70.0 % on average, or 13.1 % worse than their categories.) (mutualfundobserver.com)