This webinar will focus on the Global Tipping Points Report 2025 and feature leading researchers and authors to unpack its insights on topics like coral reefs, governance strategies, and positive tipping points that can make a difference.
Compiled by 160 scientists from 23 countries and 87 institutions, the Global Tipping Points Report 2025 synthesizes the latest research on critical Earth system thresholds.
It assesses how close key natural systems like ocean currents, glaciers, and rainforests are to irreversible change and the risks of overshooting temperature boundaries. One key finding from this year's report was how warm-water coral reefs are already reaching a dangerous tipping point and heading toward long-term decline. The report also highlights governance challenges and opportunities to trigger transformative positive tipping points.
Agenda
- Tim Lenton (University of Exeter): An overview of the Global Tipping Points Report 2025
- Nico Wunderling (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research): Implications of Overshooting 1.5°C for Earth System Tipping Points
- Simon Willcock (Bangor University): Governance of Earth system tipping points
- Melanie McField (Healthy Reefs for Healthy People): A case study on coral reefs
- Tom Powell (University of Exeter): Positive tipping points
- Followed by a moderated discussion with Frank Radosevich (Future Earth)
The webinar will be recorded and shared once it is ready.
The Tipping points discussion series supports efforts to increase consistency in the treatment of tipping elements in the scientific community, develop a research agenda, and design joint experiments and ideas for a Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project (TipMip). It is a joint activity of the Analysis, Integration, and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) global research project of Future Earth, the Earth Commission Working Group 1 Earth and Human Systems Intercomparison Modelling Project (EHSMIP) under the Global Commons Alliance, and the Safe Landing Climates Light House Activity of World Climate Research Program (WCRP).
IIASA co-hosts the scientific secretariat of Working Group 1 of the Earth Commission and is one of the organizers of these events.
Upcoming Events
Online (closed expert workshop)
Expert workshop on food waste emissions methodologies and MRV systems
Heiligenblut am Großglockner, Austria
Forum Anthropozän 2026: IIASA Director General to deliver keynote on the “Good Anthropocene”
Hybrid: online and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Public lecture: Digitalization and AI within planetary boundaries
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand