“It is the most important figure you’ve never heard of.” said Michael Greenstone, who was a key architect of the concept as the chief economist on the Council of Economic Advisors to President Obama. …
Multisolving + En-ROADS: Climate Justice Workshops
Co-authored by Cassandra Breeze Ceballos, Multisolving Program Coordinator at Climate Interactive and Curt Newton, En-ROADS Climate Ambassador and Director of MIT OpenCourseWare. …
Eric Roston of Bloomberg Green Explores En-ROADS Scenarios – How to Recreate His Experiments & More
On March 23, 2021, Eric Roston of Bloomberg Green published a newsletter piece exploring the impact of different climate solutions using the En-ROADS simulator from Climate …
Testing the Economic Impact of Climate Change in En-ROADS
In the March 2021 release of En-ROADS you can now find settings in the Assumptions to adjust the level of impact that climate change has on economic growth. There are also a number of new graphs that …
En-ROADS Updated with New Baseline Scenario
Summary The December 2020 update to En-ROADS includes a new baseline scenario, which leads to a lower global temperature in 2100: 3.6°C (6.5°F) instead of 4.1°C (7.3°F). These changes arise from …
Can trees solve the climate crisis? Unfortunately, No. Note on Bastin et al.’s erratum (2020)
(1) – MIT Sloan School of Business; (2) – ESB Business School at Reutlingen University In 2019 Bastin et al. (2019b) published “The global tree restoration potential” in Science. The paper …
Bloomberg Green Builds an Interactive Article with En-ROADS – Here’s What Sits Under the Hood
On April 22, 2020, Bloomberg News published an interactive exploring the impact of different climate solutions using Climate Interactive’s En-ROADS simulator. Below you will find detailed explanations …
The Global Climate Movement is Growing at a Faster and Faster Rate
After last week's global climate strike we took a look back at the data on the size and scale of previous climate rallies, protests, and marches. The results show a movement that is not only growing, …
What role can afforestation play in addressing climate change?
Note the authors of the paper discussed below have issued an erratum retracting some of their claims that we had pointed out initially. Additionally, En-ROADS has been updated since this post and so …
6 Methods to Unlock the Magic of Multisolving
The complex and interconnected challenges facing us today require solutions that pool people's expertise, funding, and political will to create solutions that multisolve, or solve multiple problems at …
Modeling Soil Carbon and Agriculture
Sometimes the very early stages of modeling can reveal important lessons. Validation and data are important for building a policy-relevant model, but setting up the basic physics of a problem and …
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 …