Tipping point at Stockholm +50

#Stockholm50 #TippingPoint

Join us at Liljevalchs Konsthall on 4 June for a discussion on tipping points.

Tipping points do not only occur in undesirable contexts – such as when the forest has been devastated so that the soil has been eroded and new vegetation has been made impossible, or when the last individuals within a species have died and the species has thus disappeared forever. Tipping points also occur in desired contexts – such as when the price of wind power has decreased to the point that it is no longer worthwhile to build more coal-fired power plants, or when electric cars and vegetarian food compete with petrol and meat in significant markets. What are the positive tipping points, where are they, and how could we benefit from them? How do you get from a bad balance point to a good one? Investments and speculation are often herd movements, how far away is the global economic tipping point from a fossil to fossil-free energy bloodstream? What levers and thresholds are there to ensure that the world takes a path that means planetary boundaries are protected without social and political conflicts breaking out? And what should people and politics do to get on the right path froward?

Participants:

Mats Bigert, Artist, Bigert & Bergström

Arunabha Ghosh, CEO Council on Energy, Environment and Water, CEEW

Joyeeta Gupta, former Co-chair of the Earth Commission and Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam and the
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft.

Magnus Jiborn, Head of Research, Global Challenges Foundation

Laure-Marine Vioujard, Diplomatic Coordinator (Europe), World Youth for Climate Justice

Moderator: Linda Burenius, Head of Development, Global Challenges Foundation