Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have continued to grow persistently since 1750.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into …

Climate related changes are already affecting every area of our world and will increasingly
do so as global warming increases, resulting in compounding and cascading risks across …

Our current 1.1 C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Non-technical summary Transforming towards global sustainability requires a dramatic
acceleration of social change. Hence, there is growing interest in finding 'positive tip** …

Societal transformations are necessary to address critical global challenges, such as
mitigation of anthropogenic climate change and reaching UN sustainable development …

Transformative governance is key to addressing the global environmental crisis. We explore
how transformative governance of complex biodiversity–climate–society interactions can be …

The last few years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the concept of social tip**
points (STPs), understood as nonlinear processes of transformative change in social …

Climate change is widely recognized as a major risk to societies and natural ecosystems but
the high end of the risk, ie, where risks become existential, is poorly framed, defined, and …

Constraints and limits to adaptation are critical to understanding the extent to which human
and natural systems can successfully adapt to climate change. We conduct a systematic …

Climate change and other challenges to the stability and functioning of natural and
managed environmental systems are driven by increasing anthropogenic domination of the …