Amazonian Tipping Point: Security Implications of Climate Change and Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest

This note is part of a series produced by the Defence and Climate Observatory dedicated to the tipping points identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (IPCC, 2018; Collins et al., 2019). Following an initial note on the slowing—even the potential collapse—of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the present note now turns to the Amazon rainforest and its tipping point.