
Andrew Jones is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Climate Interactive and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan. An expert on international climate and energy issues, he is a system dynamics modeler and designer of simulation-based learning environments.
Trained in environmental engineering and system dynamics modeling through a B.A. at Dartmouth College and a M.S. in Technology and Policy at MIT, he worked in the 1990s at Rocky Mountain Institute and in the 2000s with Dana Meadows at Sustainability Institute. He teaches system dynamics at MIT Sloan and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He and his team at Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan developed C-ROADS and En-ROADS, two user-friendly climate simulations in use by analysts around the world. His interviews have appeared in multiple media, including The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, and NPR’s Morning Edition.
Jones has written two op-eds in the Sunday New York Times — one on building grounded hope and another in the form of an interactive simulation.
He co-accepted the ASysT Applied Systems Thinking Prize for “a significant accomplishment achieved through the application of systems thinking to a problem of U.S. national significance” and the System Dynamics Society’s Applications Award for the best real-world application of modeling. He is the 1990 recipient of Dartmouth College’s Ray W. Smith Award for the most significant contribution to the status of the College.
Climate Interactive was named the Top US Energy and Environment Think Tank by Prospect Magazine.
He lives with his family in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina.
Work Examples

Op-Ed: New York Times
Co-author of this NYT Op-Ed “Stopping Climate Change is Hopeless. Let’s Do it.”

10-minute Workshop during NY Climate Week 2019
Abbreviated version of the En-ROADS Climate Workshop for participants at the Explorer’s Club in New York City

4-minute Radio Interview with Ailsa Chang: NPR
“What would it take to avert the dire situation described in the UN Climate Report” on All Things Considered
What It Would Take To Avert Dire Situation in the UN Climate Report

Interview with Edie Lush showing the En-ROADS simulator
Andrew Jones with Hub Culture at COP26 Glasgow

Article about Andrew Jones and Climate Interactive’s work
“Role-playing urgency: bridging climate change knowledge and action?” by Adam Fleischmann

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article: System Dynamics Review
“Science-based analysis for climate action: how HSBC Bank uses the En-ROADS climate policy simulation”

5-minute Radio Interview: NPR
“How U.N. Climate Negotiations are like splitting a bar tab” on NPR Morning Edition
Radio Interview: How U.N. Climate Negotiations Are Like Splitting A Bar Tab

12-minute Radio Interview: WCAI
“Doing the Impossible: Tackling Climate Change” WCAI | Living Lab Radio
Radio Interview: Doing the Impossible: Tackling Climate Change

TEDxAsheville: A Hope Trajectory for Climate Change
Simulating Climate Hope — Using the C-ROADS simulator to explore what it would take to address climate change

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article: PLoS One
“Combining role-play with interactive simulation to motivate informed climate action: Evidence from the World Climate simulation”

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article: Social Science Research Network
“Ratcheting Ambition to Limit Warming to 1.5°C – Trade-Offs between Emission Reductions and Carbon Dioxide Removal”

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article: Science Direct
“Management flight simulators to support climate negotiations”

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article: Sage Journals
“World Climate: A Role-Play Simulation of Climate Negotiations”
“World Climate: A Role-Play Simulation of Climate Negotiations”

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article: System Dynamics Review
“Climate Interactive: the C-ROADS climate policy model”

Graphic Story: New York Times
“The Stakes in the Paris Climate Deal: What Might Other Countries Do?“

Rally Speech: Learning From Climate Change
350 Days of Action Rally in Asheville, NC – Learning From Climate Change
Radio Interview: How U.N. Climate Negotiations Are Like Splitting A Bar Tab

Award: System Dynamics Society
System Dynamics Application Award for the best real-world application system dynamics and modeling

Master of Ceremonies: Asheville Climate Rally
April 2017 – M.C. of the Asheville Indivisible Climate Rally

Video: Stanford University
Video of Andrew running “World Energy” exercise with 125 Stanford graduate students

Opinion Piece: Climate Interactive
Author of “The Trouble with Attractiveness – Raising Quality of Life Amidst Complex Urban Systems”
The Trouble with Attractiveness – Raising Quality of Life Amidst Complex Urban Systems

Origin Story: New York Times
Covering the “Carry Your Trash” experiment of 1989

Keynote Address: Living in the Anthropocene
Delivering the keynote address at the Smithsonian Museum Conference

Podcast: The Last Environmentalist
“Super Climate Models: Getting Intimate and Interactive with Sexy Looking Climate Data”
SUPER CLIMATE MODELS – GETTING INTIMATE AND INTERACTIVE WITH SEXY LOOKING CLIMATE DATA

Opinion piece: Systems Dynamics Society Blog
Top 10 Tips to Engage People with a System Dynamics Model