Nobel Prize Summit 2021 Webinar: Tipping Points for Sustainability Transitions

Nobel Prize Summit 2021 Webinar: Tipping Points for Sustainability Transitions

Ecosystems are being destabilized by climate change and are at risk of reaching irreversible tipping points. Which way will things tip? How to manage tipping points as opportunities? Tipping points experts discuss these and other urgent questions in this Webinar (30 March 2021). With Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (PIK), Tim Lenton (Uni. Exeter), Cameron Hepburn (Uni. Oxford), Ilona M. Otto (Uni. Graz), Jonathan Donges (PIK), Manjana Milkoreit (Uni Oslo), Peter Bakker (WBCSD). Moderator: Oliver Morton (the Economist).

Date: 30/03/2021

Podcast: The Sustainability Agenda

The Sustainability Agenda is a weekly podcast exploring today’s biggest sustainability questions. Leading sustainability thinkers offer their views on the biggest sustainability challenges, share the latest thinking, identify what’s working --and what needs to change -- and think about the future of sustainability.

Episode 114: Professor Tim Lenton discusses Gaia 2.0

In this interview, Professor Tim Lenton discusses his work with Bruno Latour, exploring how humans could add some level of self-awareness to Earth's self-regulation.

Author: Fergal Byrne

Date 25/01/2021

Positive ‘tipping points’ offer hope for climate

Professor Tim Lenton (GSI Director) and simon Sharpe's (Deputy Director in the UK Cabinet Office COP26 unit) recent article ‘Upward-scaling tipping cascades to meet climate goals: plausible grounds for hope’ published on the  in the Journal Climate Policy was the focus of much media attention. The following is a list of media articles reflecting interest in this publication, and the topic of Positive ‘tipping points’    

• The Independent ‘Activating ‘tipping points’ in society could push world towards greater climate action, researchers say’ Daisy Dunne (Climate Correspondent)

• The Guardian 'Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption' Damian Carrington Environment editor

• EURACTIV ‘ Positive ‘tipping points’ provide fresh hope for climate, study says’ Kira Taylor

• Environment Costal and Offshore ‘Positive 'Tipping Points' Offer Hope for Climate’

• Cocmos ‘Positive tipping points offer climate hope’ Amelia Nichele

• Green Business ‘Positive 'tipping points': How clean technologies could be on the cusp of exponential growth’ Toby Hill

• Consumer Affairs 'Hope still exisists in the fight against climate change, experts say' Kristen Dalli

Mongabay Series: Planetary Boundaries  

Click the link below to check out the Q&A session on critical climate tipping points with GSI director Tim Lenton

We’re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&A with Tim Lenton

by Rhett A. Butler

6th January 2021

Thomson Reuters Foundation: News Article

‘Electric cars and vegan diets: Are 'good' climate tipping points at hand?’

 This interesting news article produced with GSI Director Tim Lenton explores the concept of ‘positive’ climate tipping points through the lens of electric vehicles, changing diets and the end of coal power.

Date 14/12/2020

Author: Laurie Goering

EXP-Editions - Professor Tim Lenton

In partnership with EXP-Editions Tim Lenton has created three short conversation on the subject of climate change and earth system science. EXP-Editions aims to provide accessible and reliable knowledge from the best thinkers, researchers and academics of our time. Click on the links below to explore Tim’s contribution.     

REVOLUTIONS THAT MADE THE EARTH? 

CLIMATE TIPPING POINTS?

REVERTING CLIMATE CHANGE?

Interview: BBC World Service - News Day

Decarbonisation of the steel industry 

 Date: 27/11/2020

Pim Vercoulen GSI affiliated PhD student, and Consultant for Cambridge Econometrics was interviewed on the BBC World Service - News Day programme talking about the decarbonisation of the steel industry. 

For more information on the subject please check out this blog post:     

Decarbonisation of the steel industry: modelling with FTT:Steel

Politecnico di Milano 1863: Seminar CS³@DICA

‘Tipping positive change to avoid climate tipping points’

Click the link below to watch Professor Tim Lenton, Director of the Global Systems Institute Presentation for the CS³@DICA Seminar ‘Climate-Related Risks and Extrema Events’  

SEMINAR CS³@DICA - Professor Timothy Lenton - YouTube

Date: November 19^th 2020

Book: Critical Zones

The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth

Edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel

Artists and writers portray the disorientation of a world facing climate change.

Contributions include two co-authored essays from GSI Director Professor Tim Lenton, and Sebastien Dutreuil 

‘What exactly is the Role of Gaia’ and 'Distinguishing Gia from the Earth System[s]'

Critical Zone has been listed in The New York times ‘Best Art Books of 2020’

 GARP’s Climate Risk Podcast

Systems Theory: Complexities of Climate Risk

The systemic and existential nature of the risks arising from climate change requires us to engage with the problem strategically at a high level. But how can we do this when the problem is so vast and complex?

During this episode, you will hear from Tim Lenton, a leading academic in the field of earth system science and co-author of the seminal and award-winning paper on climatic tipping points and the non-linearity of climate change.

Date: 02/11/2020