Analysis shows the plan results in only a 14% reduction in CO2 emissions from current levels by 2050 under optimistic conditions. By Ellie Johnston, Clara Iglesias, Andrew Jones, and Janet …
VICE News Tonight features Climate Interactive and MIT’s John Sterman
VICE News Tonight ran a piece on HBO which featured MIT Sloan Professor John Sterman leading the World Climate roleplay game for executive MBA students. Two of our simulation …
Is the Key to Sparking Climate Action a Game? New Research Suggests It Is, Even Across the Political Divide
81% of participants in a role play simulation increased motivation to combat climate change, regardless of political orientation Research published in PLOS ONE finds that 81% of participants in the …
Bringing the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations Home to Maine
This guest post was written by: Anna McGinn, Dr. Molly Schauffler, and Will Kochtitzky The annual United Nations meeting to negotiate on climate change (called the Conference of the Parties—COP) is a …
New study released: Creating electricity with wood instead of coal worsens climate change
Displacing coal with wood for power generation will worsen climate change say MIT, UMass Lowell and Climate Interactive researchers New research challenges European Union policy …
World Climate Simulation Grows in 2017
This year hundreds of World Climate Simulation events took place around the world, which enabled the UN climate negotiation role playing exercise to reach thousands more people. Facilitators organized …
Video: Why Run the World Climate Simulation
At COP23 the Climate Interactive team was excited to spend time with many people who are facilitating the World Climate Simulation worldwide. On several occasions we bumped into people who talked …
The ups and downs of a World Climate Simulation Event in Turkey
By: Barış Can Sever Climate Simulation Program (CSP), 22-26 September – Ankara In late September the World Climate Simulation Program (a model UNFCCC/COP), which has been regularly organized in …
Analysis: US Cities and States Take Action to Meet Paris Climate Goals
In the wake of President Trump’s announcement that he will withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement, hundreds of cities, states, tribes, counties, and universities have committed themselves to …
Analysis: U.S. Role in the Paris Agreement
By Ellie Johnston, Andrew Jones, Lori Siegel, and John Sterman President Trump is about to decide whether to withdraw from the historic Paris climate agreement or even take the US out of the UN …
Trump & the Paris Agreement: Climate Interactive in the News
Media outlets are speculating on what might become of US climate policies in the face of Trump and have called on us to run the numbers on different scenarios. The latest burst of stories has …
Run a Simulation for World Climate Week!
We are launching World Climate Week 2017! This will be a week where people like you run the World Climate Simulation around the world. This role playing exercise of the UN climate talks can …