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Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change

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Month: January 2023

diplomacy, economics

Super-leverage points

The biggest risk of dangerous climate change comes from the way all the tipping points in the Earth system are linked. Ice sheets, ocean currents, permafrost, and the Amazon Forest are all connected. Crossing one tipping point increases the chances of crossing others, increasing the pace and scale of change until […]

20 January 202328 January 2023 Simon Sharpe5 mins read
diplomacy, economics, science

Three less visible battles to win

We all know that stopping climate change involves replacing a lot of physical infrastructure: power plants, pipelines, boilers and blast furnaces. But what if replacing some invisible infrastructure – that of ideas and institutions – is equally important? After all, as Keynes said, sooner or later it is ideas, not vested interests, […]

11 January 202311 January 2023 Simon Sharpe3 mins read

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