If a small village is subject to an external shock like a drought, a war, or a flood, its residents will likely suffer material and/or human losses, but hopefully rebuild and thrive. If that same ...
John Sterman on Climate Change: Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize
In a recent climate change panel, Prof. John Sterman of MIT and Climate Interactive called for activists, media and scientists to charge down the path to climate resilience. Dealing with climate ...
Climate Interactive in the UK: Building grounded hope on climate solutions
“The workshop enabled participants to visualize how the various approaches and solutions interact and impact climate outcomes. Some of the conclusions challenged received wisdom and intuition.” - ...
World Climate in French: An Integrative and Multidisciplinary Approach
“Look, they only gave us cake crumb, we won’t give anything to the other countries!” -a student, just before the negotiation starts Our friend Laurent Richard, a mathematics teacher at the ...
Systems Thinking and Business Solutions in a Complex World
In the latest entry in the Network for Business Sustainability blog, Climate Interactive Member and MIT Professor John Sterman outlines how we can use systems thinking – the analytical approach that ...
John Sterman on the Power of Simulations
At a recent MIT conference, Climate Interactive member Prof. John Sterman provided an inspiring analysis of the relationship between big data, climate models and climate change action. As we see ...
Counterintuitive Climate Strategy: See The Solution In Order to Even See the Problem
By Drew Jones, Climate Interactive Co-Director How can we build political will to take responsibility for climate? It is time to invest in grounded hope. We should inoculate the world with an ...
Climate Interactive Simulation Opens Minds of 200 International Fellows
A group of 185 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows from across the world got a crash course in climate change policy from Climate Interactive Co-Director Drew Jones at this year's Global Leadership Forum in ...
Beth Sawin at UMass Lowell: Climate Change Solutions for the Future We Need
Creating workable solutions to climate change isn’t easy, but human beings have a history of overcoming obstacles in difficult times (as we've said before, ending the slave trade was once similarly ...
Two Interactive Graphics to Illuminate the UN Climate Report’s Latest Findings
After much anticipation, the U.N. recently released its Fifth Assessment Report on climate change, leaving us with more certainty than ever that we need to do more to address the effects of climate ...
Climate Interactive’s Travis Franck talks insights at UMass Lowell
As part of its ongoing interview series, the Climate Change Initiative at University of Massachussetts Lowell talked recently with Climate Interactive’s Travis Franck about some of our simulators and ...
19 Reasons Why We Need Climate Change Solutions Now
In his latest blog for Transition Voice, Prof. Guy McPherson of the University of Arizona provides us with an excellent reminder of just how urgent climate action is with a list of 19 natural ...