Buildings are key in supporting human activities and well-being by providing shelter and
other important services to their users. Buildings are, however, also responsible for major …

Climate tip** elements are large-scale subsystems of the Earth that may transgress critical
thresholds (tip** points) under ongoing global warming, with substantial impacts on the …

The ambition and effectiveness of climate policies will be essential in determining
greenhouse gas emissions and, as a consequence, the scale of climate change impacts …

Human activities are causing climate change and severely degrading ecosystems resulting
in biodiversity loss unprecedented for millions of years (IPBES, 2019; IPCC, 2018) …

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

Physical tip** points have gained a lot of attention in global and climate change research
to understand the conditions for system transitions when it comes to the atmosphere and the …

Climate science is expected to provide usable information to policy‐makers, to support the
resolution of climate change. The complex, multiply connected nature of climate change as a …

Social tip** points are promising levers for accelerating decarbonization progress. They
describe how social, political, economic, or technological systems can move rapidly into a …

Earth system models (ESMs) serve as vital tools for comprehensively simulating the intricate
interplay of physical, chemical, and biological processes across the Earth system's diverse …

The implementation of ambitious climate policies consistent with the goals of the Paris
Agreement is fundamentally influenced by political dynamics. Yet, thus far, climate mitigation …