2025 Global Tipping Points Report released. Here's a summary.

October 16, 2025

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Global Tipping Points Report 2025 was released, and it's a sobering reminder of how urgent and critical the climate, nature and social crisis is.

1.5°C is not a target, it’s a threshold. Already, the chain reaction of catastrophes 1.4°C human-induced global warming has caused needs to be more than a wake-up call; it’s a scream for change.

A change to the systems locking us into an uninhabitable future.

For people working in this space, it’s hard to hear this news time and time again — from the science warning us of these impacts, to the reality once they’re felt. The storms, droughts, and wildfires that are destroying homes, habitats, and livelihoods, driven by critical tipping points, which political and corporate leaders have the privilege of dismissing. The rest of the world does not.

These tipping points are far more than a scientific analysis of our earth; they are human and non-human rights issues. This affects all of us. Every 0.1°C is more threatening and a consequence of the system we live in, of the decisions to prioritise fossil fuels, resource extraction, profit, and militarisation on a global scale. A result of countries in the Global North overshooting their fair share of emissions and natural resources for a long time.

We urgently need to scale up climate mitigation and resilience financing, especially for those most impacted and least responsible, primarily in the Global South.

Not in 10 years.
Not in 5.
Now.