Coffee Morning – Climate Change – Tipping Points & When will they happen?
A climate tipping point is a threshold in the Earth’s climate system that, when crossed, can lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes. These changes can be triggered by relatively small increases in global temperatures and could have significant, long-lasting consequences for ecosystems and human societies
The Royal Meteorological Society has produced an excellent report from which the chart above is taken. You can read it here. It’s called Tipping Points- typical thresholds for climate change.
We will have a talk today from Sahil Shah
Today’s link is here
Tuesday August 19th 2025 – 10.30 am
CPD included
You are cordially invited to attend our next online event with Sahil Shah from Tipping Frontier.
As we see extreme weather unfolding – what are the actual major climate tipping points and how likely are they to happen?
Sahil will be giving a great educational session on what the climate tipping points are, when they are likely to happen and what effects they are likely to cause the earth.
There will then be time to discuss what pension schemes can do about this with the Trustee Sustainability Working Group chair, Bobby Riddaway. This not to be missed session is extremely interesting and eye-opening and is feeding on the training that Tipping Frontier have delivered to major institutions across the world including the World Bank, IMF, Indian and British governments.
Sahil Shah is Co-Founder of Tipping Frontier. He is a Honorary research fellow at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, working in the food/energy/water nexus, and a fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC. He sits on the World Bank’s Famine Action Mechanism Technical Working Group and the Chatham House Food and Land Use round table.
This should be a great session.
Join by clicking here
Sahil – our speaker today
A footnote on Tuesday’s talk from this week’s issue of The Economist:
“For some, talk of tipping points is a harmful distraction. In 2024 an international group of well-known scientists published an article in Nature Climate Change arguing that a focus on tipping points diverted attention from the more general need for climate mitigation and adaptation, around which the science is much more certain.
“Others worry about fostering a sense of fatalism, by framing some catastrophic changes as unavoidable.
“Regardless, the concept is slowly but steadily gaining ground.
“In July a big conference on tipping points in Exeter attracted actuaries, insurers and pension funds as well as scientists and activists.”
Kopp, R.E., Gilmore, E.A., Shwom, R.L. et al. ‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action. Nat. Clim. Chang. 15, 29–36 (2025).
doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02196-8
global-tipping-points.org/conference-2025/