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Earth system tipping events now seem inevitable – what does this mean for climate governance?

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For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. 2023 ) offers a sound guide here. A tipping point is a system threshold beyond which change becomes self-perpetuating until a qualitatively different stable state is reached. Such shifts are non-linear, and practically irreversible.