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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. Political and social science must come to the fore to help develop effective responses to tipping events. A tipping point is a system threshold beyond which change becomes self-perpetuating until a qualitatively different stable state is reached.

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The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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

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