{"id":7888,"date":"2020-02-03T11:47:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T08:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","slug":"how-social-tipping-points-could-limit-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/03\/how-social-tipping-points-could-limit-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"How Social \u2018Tipping Points\u2019 Could Limit Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Achieving the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/process-and-meetings\/the-paris-agreement\/the-paris-agreement\">Paris Climate Agreement<\/a>&nbsp;goal of keeping global warming to 1.5\u00b0C requires a worldwide transformation to carbon-neutral societies within the next 30 years. The task ahead is immense. It requires dramatic technological progress, policy implementations and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wri.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/8-things-you-need-know-about-ipcc-15-c-report\">wide scale changes in society<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To explore how to bring about such changes, we asked this question: is it possible to unleash tipping points within societies, which unlock positive and rapid climate action in line with keeping warming to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wri.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/8-things-you-need-know-about-ipcc-15-c-report\">1.5\u00b0C<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To answer it we conducted a survey of 133 international experts in the field of sustainability research and practice. Those experts suggested potential societal transformations that could lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/interactive\/emissions-gap-report\/2019\/\">fast enough<\/a>\u00a0to avoid crossing dangerous tipping points in the Earth\u2019s climate system. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-social-tipping-points-could-limit-global-warming-130309\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Achieving the&nbsp;Paris Climate Agreement&nbsp;goal of keeping global warming to 1.5\u00b0C requires a worldwide transformation to carbon-neutral societies within the next 30 years. The task ahead is immense. It requires dramatic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}