Social tipping points are the only hope for the climate
A new paper explores how to trigger them.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/1/29/21083250/climate-change-social-tipping-points

Der Artikel geht u.a. über dieses Paper:
Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/01/14/1900577117

Verlinkt dort aber auch:
Increasing opportunities for sustainable behavior
by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-opportunities-sustainable-behavior.html

A joint venture from the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative and the European Commission Joint Research Centre, the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas is the first synthesis of global soil biodiversity research and its importance to our living world.

https://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/atlas-introduction

BIS (Bank of International Settlements: Vereinigung von 60 Zentralbanken)

The green swan
Central banking and financial stability in the age of climate change

Aus dem Vorwort:
The increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events could trigger non-linear and irreversible financial losses. In turn, the immediate and system-wide transition required to fight climate change could have far- reaching effects potentially affecting every single agent in the economy and every single asset price. Climate-related risks could therefore threaten central banks' mandates of price and financial stability, but also our socio-economic systems at large.

https://www.bis.org
https://www.bis.org/publ/othp31.pdf

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Verlinkt mit einigen anderen Artikeln in:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-02-05/uninsurable-and-unhedgeable-central-banks-warn-of-financial-crisis-from-climate-change/

The report summarizes the latest research on the state of our planet and highlights how our actions in the next decade will determine our path forward.

https://futureearth.org/publications/our-future-on-earth

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Future Earth harnesses the experience and reach of thousands of scientists and innovators from across the globe. This global community is spread over a series of networks and governing and advisory bodies.

https://futureearth.org

Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica

Artikel:

".. The extreme ice loss caused a multi-metre rise in global mean sea levels – and it took less than 2˚C of ocean warming for it to occur. .."
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/ancient-antarctic-ice-melt-increased-sea-levels-3-metres-%E2%80%93-and-it-could-happen

Paper (Rahmstorf et al):
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/02/10/1902469117

In April 2017, Project Drawdown released its inaugural body of work on climate solutions with the publication of the best-selling book Drawdown and a suite of open-source resources on Drawdown.org.

That material has influenced university curricula, city climate plans, commitments by businesses, community action, philanthropic strategy, and more. This Review represents the organization’s second seminal publication and the first major update to our assessment of solutions to move the world toward “Drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline.

https://www.drawdown.org/drawdown-framework/drawdown-review-2020

UNESCO
World Water Development Report 2020
Water and Climate Change

The 2020 edition of the World Water Development Report (WWDR 2020) entitled ‘Water and Climate Change’ aims at helping the water community to tackle the challenges of climate change and informing the climate change community about the opportunities that improved water management offers in terms of adaptation and mitigation.

https://en.unesco.org/themes/water-security/wwap/wwdr/2020

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Schlechte Wasser-Infrastruktur behindert auch eine effektive Eindämmung von COVID19 ..
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/22/water-saving-an-important-but-ignored-weapon-in-solving-climate-crisis-says-un

Allerdings gibt es auch kreative lowtech-Lösungen: zwei Kanister hängen an einem Gestell: in einem ist eine Seifenlösung, in einem anderen Wasser. Unten zwei Pedale, die je mit einer Schnur mit den Kanistern verbunden sind und diese so kippen, dass etwas Seifenlösung/Wasser herausfliesst: Handwäsche ohne Berührung der Kanister ..
https://twitter.com/Remy_Zahiga/status/1243950145726791683

FRA 2020 examines the status of, and trends in, more than 60 forest-related variables in 236 countries and territories in the period 1990–2020.
The information provided by FRA presents a comprehensive view of the world’s forests and the ways in which the resource is changing.

http://www.fao.org/forest-resources-assessment/2020/en

Weltweit wird derzeit darüber debattiert, wie wir mit einer solchen Technologie, den sogenannten Gene Drives, umgehen sollten.

Mit Erklärvideo: -->Umweltinstitut München

Scientists' Warning on Affluence
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y

Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/1/8/5610806

Scientists' Warning to Humanity: a Second Notice
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/67/12/1026/4605229