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We ask a world leading climate scientist what climate action visitor attractions should prioritise. Find out the 2 key things Prof Tim Lenton suggests ...

Chapters
0:00 Prof Tim Lenton joins us at greenloop
1:17 Positive tipping point presentation
23:35 What "quick win" actions could visitor attractions take?

We were extremely lucky to have one of the world's top climate scientists join us at greenloop - sustainability in visitor attractions conference 2023. Professor Tim Lenton, a founder of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter will explain how positive tipping points could avoid climate catastrophy.

His books ‘Revolutions that Made the Earth’ (with Andrew Watson) and ‘Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction’ have popularised a new scientific view of our planetary home. Lenton co-authored the ‘Planetary Boundaries’ framework and is renowned for his work identifying climate tipping points, which won the Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the Year 2008. He has also received a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004, the European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2006, the Geological Society of London William Smith Fund 2008, and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2013.

Lenton is a member of the Earth Commission, an ISI Highly Cited Researcher, and in the top 100 of the Reuters ‘Hot List’ of the world’s top climate scientists. He is also a Turing Fellow, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Geological Society and the Society of Biology.

We have left it too late to tackle climate change incrementally. It now requires transformational change, and a dramatic acceleration of progress.

"In the face of such vast problems, we feel disempowered," said Professor Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter.

"But – just as Tipping Points are part of the greatest threat we face – the same logic may also provide the solution. At the University of Exeter, we have identified a variety of Positive Tipping Points in human societies that can propel rapid decarbonisation.