Our World Climate Exercise, a role-playing game that simulates the UN climate change negotiations, has been played around the world from classes of school children in Austria to a visiting group of Chinese officials at MIT. The interest and enthusiasm from the community of people leading this exercise has meant several have volunteered to translate our materials from […]
Archives for July 2012
Eileen Claussen on En-ROADS: We Have Our Work Cut Out For Us
Recently Drew Jones was down in Washington DC working with the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and their Business Environmental Leadership Council to explore future energy and climate scenarios through interactive “what if” testing. Lots of interesting dialogue unfolded with this diverse group. Eileen Claussen, President of C2ES, had this to say about our […]
Visualize Scenarios to 2 degrees: IEA Releases New Tool
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just put up a great interactive tool which enables people to explore the different elements of three energy scenarios, which lead to 2ºC, 4ºC, and 6ºC temperature change by 2100. The tool provides a great interface for users to navigate through animated data visualization found on three different screens […]
Lessons from Rio+20 and some words from Buckminster Fuller
I covered a bit about what Climate Interactive was up to and what we were seeing while in Rio a couple weeks ago. Below are my personal reflections coming out of Rio, which went up earlier this week on the environmental blog Grist. Were you at Rio+20 or did you watch it from afar? Let […]
World Climate with Chinese Officials
Guest post from Professor John Sterman: I recently ran the World Climate role play negotiation with a group of about 30 officials from China, as part of the IDEAS/China program run here at MIT Sloan by Otto Scharmer, with the help of Peter Senge and Joe Hsueh (a recent graduate of our doctoral program in […]