Sudden surges in support for renewable energy, rapid shifts in public opinion on ethical issues, striking school children around the world – these are all examples of social tipping points. Director of the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, Stefan Gaardsmand Jacobsen, sits down with Steve Smith from the University of Exeter in the UK and Franziska Gaupp from Osnabrück University in Germany to talk about their shared research interest in positive social tipping points and how they work.

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Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.