L’EMbeDS DS^3: "Positive tipping points to avoid climate tipping points”

The DS³ organizing group, alongside the L'EMbeDS Department of Excellence of the Sant'Anna School for Advanced Studies, is launching a new online seminars series devoted to frontier research in data science, its applications and its implications across disciplines.  

The L'EMbeDS Data Science Seminar Series (L'EMbeDS DS³) hosts national and international scholars to discuss cutting-edge methodology, applications in economics, the social sciences -- and beyond, societal implications and governance issues. 

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The third seminar will feature Tim Lenton (University of Exeter), who will present a talk entitled: “Positive tipping points to avoid climate tipping points” 

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ABSTRACT:  

Tipping points in climate science normally refer to small changes in the Earth system that unleash much broader, typically damaging impacts that accelerate climate change. Well-known examples are rising sea levels due to disintegration of the Greenland and West Antarctica ice sheets, or the release of methane from the thawing permafrost. They help to underline the urgency of climate action. Today most people understand we must reduce emissions – and very quickly.  In this webinar, Tim will summarise recent evidence regarding climate tipping points, which supports declarations that we are in a ‘climate emergency’. Then he will turn to identifying positive social tipping points that will need to be triggered to have any hope of limiting global warming to well below 2C.