Tipping point risks breakout sessions

This workshop will brainstorm how to improve models of climate tipping points and their interactions, as part of a proposed Tipping Point Model Intercomparison Project (TIPMIP).

Convenors: Earth Commission and World Climate Research Programme

Content lead: Ricarda Winkelmann

This workshop will explore the utility and drawbacks of current techniques for forewarning approaching tipping points and the potential for machine learning to aid this. The group will sketch out the ingredients of a tipping point early warning system.

Convenors: TiPES & GSI-UW-DARPA

Content lead: Ulrike Feudel, Chris Boulton, Daniel Dylewsky

This workshop will explore how to better assess tipping point impacts and interactions across human and Earth systems, time and spatial scales. It will come up with a research agenda to better assess cascading risks.

Convenors: IIASA

Content lead: Nebojsa Nakicenovic

This workshop will explore the need for and potential approaches to tipping point governance and risk management. It will develop recommendations for risk managers and policy makers.

Convenors: University of Oslo and Global Systems Institute

Content lead: Manjana Milkoreit

This workshop will explore the need to better understand tipping points across social-ecological systems. It will establish a research and action agenda to better identify abrupt social-ecological transformations.

Content lead: Laura Pereira

This workshop will explore the threats and opportunities to the sustainability transition resulting from tipping point impacts and interactions and how these can be managed. It will sketch an agenda for supporting emerging leaders to better develop the capabilities to navigate a faster, better transition through plausible scenarios.

Convenors: Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator and Global Systems Institute

Content lead: Laurie Laybourne Langton

This session will explore the need for precautionary action in the face of tipping point risks, as a key element in achieving climate justice both in the present and for future generations.

Convenors: Global Systems Institute

Content lead: Catriona McKinnon & Ashish Ghadiali

This workshop, which will run in 4 sessions though during the conference. It will explore in the first two sessions why we are not yet seeing sufficient behaviour change and policy action on climate change. It will examine current communications practice. It will discuss what needs to change to better engage different types of audiences, from media to activists and policy-makers to the public, 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