Presentation- Fifth meeting of the Task Force on Climate Change Adaptation - Marcia Rocha

1. Climate Tipping Points:
Insights for effective policy
action
Task Force Adaptation
28 November 2022
Marcia Rocha
marcia.rocha@oecd.org

2. Managing Climate Risks, Facing up to Losses and Damages
The OECD reviews the most recent scientific
information on climate tipping points and
discusses the implications for policy making right
now and in the near future of our increasing
knowledge on tipping points

3. What does the most recent science tells us?
Clear signs that we may be approaching climate
system tipping points today
Crossing tipping points is increasingly likely at
much lower levels of global warming than
previously thought
Climate tipping points are crossed, the planet and
socio-economic systems will undergo profound and
often irreversible changes

4. An urgent shift in how tipping points are treated
in climate policy today
Global temperature increase limited to 1.5°C,
with no or limited overshoot through this century
Transformational adaptation
Technological development and innovation

5. emissions
2050
2015
Net-zero
in 2050
Implications of different pathways to net-zero on
for the risks of tipping points

6. How can the integration of the risks of climate tipping
points can lead to accelerated action –
positive tipping points
• Positive tipping points refer to inflection points in social, economic
or technological trends leading to sudden acceleration in systems
change, and a rapid downward trend in emissions
• How to set these in motion?

7. Virtual Launch Event
OECD Report
Climate Tipping Points: Insights for Effective Policy Action
Report prepared under Losses and Damages from Climate Change Project and
Horizontal Project on Climate and Economic Resilience
2 December 2022, 15:30 – 17:00 (CET) via Zoom
Registration link:
https://meetoecd1.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ld-upqTgoEtUQzDI8wAQTxYN9xndc20B-

8. THANK YOU!
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