Andrew Jones is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Climate Interactive and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan. An expert on international climate and energy issues, he is a system dynamics modeler, keynote speaker, 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, 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 Prize” for “a significant accomplishment achieved through the application of systems thinking to a problem of U.S. national significance,” the System Dynamics Society’s award for the best real-world application of modeling, and 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.”
Keynote Address: Living in the Anthropocene
Delivering the keynote address at the Smithsonian Museum Conference
Radio Interview: 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
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
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
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
Contributing author on “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
Contributing author on “Ratcheting Ambition to Limit Warming to 1.5°C – Trade-Offs between Emission Reductions and Carbon Dioxide Removal”
Peer-Reviewed Journal Article: Science Direct
Contributing author on “Management flight simulators to support climate negotiations”
Peer-Reviewed Journal Article: Sage Journals
Contributing author on “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
Contributing author on “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 Drew 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