Climate risk · Cross-cutting

Tipping point

Critical threshold beyond which a system reorganises, often abruptly and/or irreversibly, in response to a relatively small additional change in conditions such as climate forcing.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGI Glossary: Tipping point

Synonyms

critical threshold

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

CRK_11 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CRK_11
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CRK_11)