The Global Tipping Points Report launched at COP28
The Global Tipping Points Report is the most comprehensive assessment of negative and positive tipping points ever conducted. It says humanity is currently on a disastrous trajectory. The speed of fossil fuel phase out and growth of zero-carbon solutions will now determine the future of billions of people. Current global governance is inadequate for the scale of the challenge.
Emergency global action – accelerated by leaders meeting now at COP28 – can harness positive tipping points and steer us towards a thriving, sustainable future. The report lays out a blueprint for doing this, and says bold, coordinated policies could trigger positive tipping points across multiple sectors including energy, transport, and food.
The Global Tipping Points Report makes six key recommendations to change course fast, including coordinated action to trigger positive tipping points.
- Phase out fossil fuels and land-use emissions now, stopping them well before 2050.
- Strengthen adaptation and “loss and damage” governance, recognising inequality between and within nations.
- Include tipping points in the Global Stocktake (the world’s climate “inventory”) and Nationally Determined
- Contributions (each country’s efforts to tackle climate change).
- Coordinate policy efforts to trigger positive tipping points.
- Convene an urgent global summit on tipping points
The Global Tipping Points Report will also be the focus for a webinar on 13 December 10:30 – 12:00 CET. Register for this event to hear key insights from the Report from each of the Section Leads.
Parts of the Global Tipping Points Report will also be published in a special issue of the journal Earth System Dynamics.