Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth's climate by 2050

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage2354eng
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue5eng
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage2365eng
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume117eng
dc.contributor.authorOtto, Ilona M.
dc.contributor.authorDonges, Jonathan F.
dc.contributor.authorCremades, Roger
dc.contributor.authorBhowmik, Avit
dc.contributor.authorHewitt, Richard J.
dc.contributor.authorLucht, Wolfgang
dc.contributor.authorRockström, Johan
dc.contributor.authorAllerberger, Franziska
dc.contributor.authorMcCaffrey, Mark
dc.contributor.authorDoe, Sylvanus S.P.
dc.contributor.authorLenferna, Alex
dc.contributor.authorMorán, Nerea
dc.contributor.authorvan Vuuren, Detlef P.
dc.contributor.authorSchellnhuber, Hans Joachim
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-14T12:32:57Z
dc.date.available2021-12-14T12:32:57Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractSafely achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement requires a worldwide transformation to carbon-neutral societies within the next 30 y. 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. Here, we discuss and evaluate the potential of social tipping interventions (STIs) that can activate contagious processes of rapidly spreading technologies, behaviors, social norms, and structural reorganization within their functional domains that we refer to as social tipping elements (STEs). 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. 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 1) removing fossil-fuel subsidies and incentivizing decentralized energy generation (STE1, energy production and storage systems), 2) building carbon-neutral cities (STE2, human settlements), 3) divesting from assets linked to fossil fuels (STE3, financial markets), 4) revealing the moral implications of fossil fuels (STE4, norms and value systems), 5) strengthening climate education and engagement (STE5, education system), and 6) disclosing information on greenhouse gas emissions (STE6, information feedbacks). Our research reveals important areas of focus for larger-scale empirical and modeling efforts to better understand the potentials of harnessing social tipping dynamics for climate change mitigation.eng
dc.description.versionpublishedVersioneng
dc.identifier.urihttps://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/7735
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.34657/6782
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900577117
dc.relation.essn1091-6490
dc.relation.ispartofseriesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (2020), Nr. 5eng
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 4.0 Unportedeng
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/eng
dc.subjectParis Agreementeng
dc.subjectclimate changeeng
dc.subjectdecarbonizationeng
dc.subjectsocial tipping elementseng
dc.subject.ddc000eng
dc.subject.ddc500eng
dc.titleSocial tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth's climate by 2050eng
dc.typearticleeng
dc.typeTexteng
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journalTitleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of Americaeng
tib.accessRightsopenAccesseng
wgl.contributorPIKeng
wgl.subjectBiowissensschaften/Biologieeng
wgl.typeZeitschriftenartikeleng
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