NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Negative tipping points — developments that trigger irreversible destruction of ecological systems — are climate scientists’s nightmare. But there’s another, happier kind of tipping point. In this virtual Covering Climate Now press briefing on Day 1 of New York Climate Week, two of the world’s leading experts unveil a pathbreaking new study that identifies positive climate tipping points: changes in economic or regulatory policy that exponentially accelerate clean energy uptake and fossil fuel phase-out. Join Christiana Figueres, a key architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement as executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Professor Tim Lenton, chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter and co-author of a new study on positive tipping points to learn what journalists need to know to explain how positive tipping points can halt global warming before it’s too late. Mark Hertsgaard, co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now, will moderate.