{"id":117943,"date":"2023-10-26T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/tipping-points-of-risk-pose-new-threats-un-report-warns\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T07:30:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:30:19","slug":"tipping-points-of-risk-pose-new-threats-un-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/tipping-points-of-risk-pose-new-threats-un-report-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tipping points\u2019 of risk pose new threats, UN report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117943\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>No ground water available? No access to satellite data because of where you live or home insurance due to recent natural disasters? A new UN report launched on Wednesday has some useful insights on the \u201crisk tipping points\u201d which are becoming an increasing challenge worldwide. Tipping points are reached when the systems we rely on stop functioning as designed, amplifying the risk of catastrophic impacts, according to new research published by the United Nations University \u2013 Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). The Interconnected Disaster Risks report 2023 finds that the world is fast approaching risk tipping points on multiple fronts.<\/p>\n<p>By indiscriminately extracting water resources, damaging nature and biodiversity, polluting both Earth and space while cutting down options to deal with disasters, human actions introduces new risks and amplifying existing ones. \u201cWith these risk tipping points, it is as though we are approaching a cliff that we cannot see clearly ahead of us, and once we fall off the cliff, we can\u2019t easily go back,\u201d said Dr. Zita Sebesvari, one of the report\u2019s lead authors and UNU-EHS Deputy Director.<\/p>\n<p>The report analyses six interconnected risk tipping points. Selected for their representation of large global issues that impact lives across the world they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accelerating extinctions that trigger chain reaction to ecosystem collapse<\/li>\n<li>Groundwater depletion that drains water risking food supply<\/li>\n<li>Mountain glaciers melting<\/li>\n<li>Space debris causing loss of multiple satellites, \u201cour eyes in the sky\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Unbearable heat making it hard to live in some areas<\/li>\n<li>Uninsurable future when rising risks make homes unaffordable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The impacts can also cascade through to other systems and places around the world, authors of the report warn.<br \/>\nes around the world, authors of the report warn.<\/p>\n<p>If risk tipping points are understood, informed decisions and decisive actions to avert the worst are possible. \u201cBecause of the interconnected nature of these risk tipping points, their drivers, root causes and influences, avoiding them will require more than a single solution\u201d, explained Dr. Sebesvari. \u201cWe will need to develop solutions that bring together different sectors and address the drivers and root causes in a systemic way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report offers a new framework that categorizes risk mitigation solutions into four types based on their approach: Avoid (preventing risk), Adapt (dealing with risk), Delay (slowing risk progression), and Transform (system overhaul). This framework aids in evaluating a solution&#8217;s potential outcomes and trade-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Identifying a solution&#8217;s category helps evaluate potential outcomes and trade-offs. For instance, addressing the &#8220;Unbearable heat&#8221; tipping point due to climate change may involve an Avoid-Transform approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while an Adapt-Delay approach could be installing air conditioners in hot climates, although this may contribute to global warming if powered by fossil fuels. \u201cIn our interconnected world, we can all make changes and inspire others towards transforming the way we use our systems to reduce risk,\u201d said Caitlyn Eberle, another lead author of the report and senior researcher for the UNU study.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2023\/10\/1142807\">The UN<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/119017\/\">\u2018Tipping points\u2019 of risk pose new threats, UN report warns<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,519,1018,11990,402],"class_list":["post-117943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-risk","tag-threat","tag-tipping-points","tag-un"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}