Join AIMES, the Earth Commission, Future Earth, and the WCRP’s Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity for a webinar exploring the latest scientific insights on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) tipping points and their profound policy implications. This discussion will bring together experts to examine how science and policy can work together to address these emerging risks and enhance global preparedness.
Tipping points in the climate system, such as a potential collapse of the AMOC, pose serious global risks—yet they remain largely absent from national security risk assessments. This discussion will explore why these critical thresholds are being overlooked, the consequences of inaction, and what policy options could help close this dangerous gap.
Presentations
- Maya Ben-Yami (Technical University of Munich) - Impacts from AMOC tipping
- Laurie Laybourn-Langton (the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative (SCRI)) - A fateful policy blind spot? Atlantic tipping and security
- Q&A/ Discussion
The session will be moderated by Annika Hoegner from IIASA and The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
A recording will be available after the event.
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.
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