Llewelyn Pritchard
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050 Ilona M. Otto et. al. 21 JANUARY 2020 #SustainabilityScience #ResearchArticle SIGNIFICANCE

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Achieving a rapid global decarbonisation to stabilise the climate critically depends on activating contagious and fast-spreading processes of social and technological change within the next few years.

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Drawing on expert elicitation, an expert workshop and a review of literature, which provides a comprehensive analysis on this topic, we propose concrete interventions to induce positive social tipping dynamics and a rapid global transformation to carbon-neutral societies

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... These social tipping interventions comprise removing fossil-fuel subsidies and incentivising decentralised energy generation, building carbon-neutral cities, divesting from assets linked to fossil fuels,

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... revealing the moral implications of fossil fuels, strengthening climate education and engagement, and disclosing greenhouse gas emissions information.

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Abstract Safely achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement requires a worldwide transformation to carbon-neutral societies within the next 30 yrs. NOTE: much less 2030 for 'wealthier' 2040 for 'poorer'

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Accelerated technological progress and policy implementations are required to deliver emissions reductions at rates sufficiently fast to avoid crossing dangerous tipping points in the Earth’s climate system.

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Here, we discuss and evaluate the potential of social tipping interventions (STIs) that can activate contagious processes of rapidly spreading technologies, behaviours, social norms, and structural reorganisation

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... within their functional domains that we refer to as social tipping elements (STEs).

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... STEs are subdomains of the planetary socioeconomic system where the required disruptive change may take place and lead to a sufficiently fast reduction in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... The results are based on online expert elicitation, a subsequent expert workshop, and a literature review. The STIs that could trigger the tipping of STE subsystems include

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1) removing fossil-fuel subsidies and incentivizing decentralized energy generation (STE1, energy production and storage systems),

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 2) building carbon-neutral cities (STE2, human settlements),

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 3) divesting from assets linked to fossil fuels (STE3, financial markets),

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 4) revealing the moral implications of fossil fuels (STE4, norms and value systems),

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 5) strengthening climate education and engagement (STE5, education system), and

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 6) disclosing information on greenhouse gas emissions (STE6, information feedbacks).

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Our research reveals important areas of focus for larger-scale empirical and modelling efforts to better understand the potentials of harnessing social tipping dynamics for climate change mitigation. Thank You @ilonamotto.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social

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