Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050
2020; National Academy of Sciences; Volume: 117; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1073/pnas.1900577117
ISSN1091-6490
AutoresIlona M. Otto, Jonathan F. Donges, Roger Cremades, Avit Kumar Bhowmik, Richard J. Hewitt, Wolfgang Lucht, Johan Rockström, Franziska Allerberger, M. S. McCaffrey, Sylvanus S. P. Doe, Georges Alexandre Lenferna, Nerea Morán Alonso, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber,
Tópico(s)Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
ResumoSignificance Achieving a rapid global decarbonization to stabilize the climate critically depends on activating contagious and fast-spreading processes of social and technological change within the next few years. 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. These social tipping interventions comprise removing fossil-fuel subsidies and incentivizing decentralized energy generation, building carbon-neutral cities, divesting from assets linked to fossil fuels, revealing the moral implications of fossil fuels, strengthening climate education and engagement, and disclosing greenhouse gas emissions information.
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