Join AIMES, the Earth Commission, Future Earth, and the WCRP’s Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity for a discussion on the dynamics behind socioeconomic tipping points, and what they can tell us about accelerating the transition towards a safe and sustainable future.
What drives acceleration in socioeconomic transitions, and what can slow it down?
Tipping points are increasingly used to understand how low-carbon transitions can move from incremental change towards rapid, self-reinforcing acceleration. But what actually drives this acceleration, how long does it last, and what factors can constrain or slow transitions down?
In this webinar, researchers explore these questions from complementary perspectives on socio-technical transitions. Drawing on research on energy and net-zero transitions, they will examine how interacting technological, economic, policy and social feedbacks can accelerate low-carbon innovations and contribute to the decline of incumbent systems.
At the same time, the discussion will consider how counteracting socio-political feedbacks and necessary changes in infrastructure, institutions and supply chains can limit acceleration, as well as how transition dynamics can spread across interconnected socio-technical systems.
Agenda
- Frank Geels (Manchester University): A socio-technical transitions perspective on tipping points and acceleration: Some cautionary reflections on negative feedbacks, transition phases, and potential slowdowns
- Cameron Allen, (Monash University): Beyond tipping points: acceleration mechanisms and tipping dynamics in low-carbon transitions
- Followed by a moderated discussion with Sibel Eker (IIASA)
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.
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