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Bookmark or Share- Climate crisis: How positive tipping points could save the planetIn a climate context, positive tipping points are major changes in society that tip the balance towards exponential decarbonization. Tim Lenton, Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, says positive tipping points, such as the shift to electric vehicles, can save our climate.
- New World Economic Forum Immersive Technology Hub to Address Climate ...New York, USA, 17 September 2023 – The World Economic Forum introduced a new polar tipping points hub today in its Global Collaboration Village. The purpose-driven platform, which is powered by next-generation technology, will bring global leaders together in the metaverse to solve the deepening effects of the climate and nature crisis. The hub is an immersive virtual reality space and will ...
- Climate change: What are the climate tipping points ... - World ...A new assessment of the past 15 years of research has found there is a risk of certain tipping points being triggered now when global warming stands at roughly 1.2°C. But the Paris agreement’s aim of halting warming at 1.5°C would reduce the chances of triggering multiple climate tipping points, the researchers say.
- 1.5°C is a physical limit: this climate target can’t be negotiatedThe Climate Tipping Points Hub is a collaboration with the Earth Decides community. It features new and combined data sets from Arctic Basecamp (a non-profit science outreach organization that works to promote awareness of the global risks of climate change in the Arctic to global world leaders from business, policy and civil society), NASA ...
- Positive tipping points: a credible way to hit climate goalsPositive tipping points are also starting to reinforce each other across sectors. Ever cheaper batteries are reinforcing the tipping point to renewable energy — by helping balance power supply and demand. And ever cheaper renewable energy is helping tip electrification of mobility as it lowers the total cost of ownership of EVs.
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