What are the 'positive tipping points' that could help us accelerate out of climate disaster?
Climate 'tipping points' are the dangerous phenomena that could suddenly make climate change even worse than it is already: melting ice sheets that could change ocean currents, thawing permafrost that releases vast amounts of methane, or rainforests turning into dry savannah - events that could completely destabilise the global environment and would be hard or impossible to reverse.
But, according to a growing number of climate scientists, there is also the prospect of 'positive tipping points'. Things that can happen to speed up the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in ways that humanity…
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