Tipping point opportunities breakout sessions

This workshop will seek to identify positive tipping points for ambitiously scaling restoration and regeneration of degraded land to make a serious contribution to rectifying the planet’s carbon balance. We will focus on how we can establish pathways to globally accepted restoration goals that bring win-win-wins for people, climate and nature.

Convenors: Global Evergreening Alliance & Global Systems Institute

Content lead: Dennis Garrity

This workshop will build upon a recent report in seeking to identify positive tipping points for food system transformation, from healthy and sustainable diets to productive, resilient and regenerative farming systems and supply chains. We will focus on setting a research and action agenda to enable transitions to sustainable food systems while managing feedback loops and trade-offs between tipping of other systems.

Convenors: Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) & Global Systems Institute

Content lead: Scarlett Benson & Talia Smith

This workshop will bring together a set of leaders from right across the investment and business chain to design a transformed operating model for finance and positive tipping points investment funds based on its principles.

Convenors: Global Systems Institute

Content lead: Daniel Godfrey & Ashish Ghadiali

Inspired by the ‘Gaia and the Globe’ project, this workshop will explore how stimulating a popular movement towards the transition to living in a ‘right relationship with Gaia’ might be achieved.

Convenors: Gaia’s Company

Content lead: Peter Horton

This workshop will bring together business sector leaders, policy makers and researchers to explore how to unlock transformative change in the business sector. It will map the policy and regulatory commitments and the tools and metrics required to enable sustainability transformations.

Convenors: TBC

Content lead: Peter White

This workshop will explore positive tipping points for deep decarbonisation of carbon intensive regions and sectors. Drawing on lessons from the TIPPING+ project, participants will identify the most effective tipping interventions to enact low-carbon, clean-energy transitions.

Convenors: TIPPING+ project

Content lead: J. David Tàbara

This workshop will seek to understand how the integration of school classes into local and international transformational networks can boost the transition process and students’ abilities for the future. The output of this workshop will also feed into two ongoing research applications – “TICCET to the future” and “The Climate Long Game”. More information about how this workshop fits into this process can be found here.

Convenors: TICCET to the future, CRS, Exponential Roadmap Initiative & The Long Game

Content lead: Oliver Kunkel & Avit Bhowmik

This workshop will explore methods of better identifying positive tipping points across different sectors. We will also explore how we can track progress towards positive tipping points to inform action. This session will kick off a research agenda to inform various efforts, including the Systems Change Lab’s efforts to monitor progress towards tipping points, a report for COP27 on the state of positive tipping points, and an annual report that will summarize the scientific community’s understanding on tipping points.

Convenors: SYSTEMIQ, Systems Change Lab & Global Systems Institute

Content lead: Mark Meldrum & Rachel Jetel

Following on from Session 1, this linked workshop will go into a deeper dive on communications and climate change. It will explore the best practices for engaging different audiences to trigger action on positive tipping points, There will also be a focus on how social movements and activists can communicate tipping risks and trigger societal tipping points.

Convenors: Thinking the Unthinkable, Open Planet (TBC), Future Earth/Earth Commission (TBC)

Content lead: Maya Rebermark, Owen Gaffney, Chris Langdon, Aaron Thierry, Femke Sleegers