The good news is that all of these forces will be going into reverse for fossil fuels, and simultaneously cascading their decline.
The report identifies 5 key areas renewables have self-perpetuating feedback loops.
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Clean electricity as the master cascade. Solar and wind have crossed positive tipping points in many markets; further scaling is now self-propelling.
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Commodity supply chain transformation.
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High-quality marine protected areas, locally managed marine areas and fisheries co-management. Well-designed and well-enforced ocean conservation produces visible recovery of fish stocks and biodiversity within years
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Clean cooking and clean household energy. Around 2.1 billion people still rely on solid fuels for cooking.
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Adaptation enablers. Things like anticipatory action, adaptation finance and climate-resilient infrastructure. Also, governance, monitoring and social tipping, climate-resilient health systems are explicitly identified as enablers of self-propelling adaptation.
Positive Tipping Points: Accelerating system change to repair our planet was developed by the University of Exeter’s Green Futures Solutions team, in collaboration with The Earthshot Prize