Writing from the Bella Center in Copenhagen, our Climate Interactive team is sharing analysis of Day 5 Draft Texts in COP15. With less than a week to go, significant differences remain between the …
Japan Changes its Mitigation Proposal: Climate Scoreboard Shifts, in Wrong Direction
[clearspring_widget title="Climate Scoreboard" wid="4b0afdf054484c54" pid="4b15120637e3b433" width="450" height="399" domain="widgets.clearspring.com"] Our calculation of anticipated 2100 global …
Copenhagen Accord Reaffirms 2 Degree Goal, but Gap with National Proposals Remain. The Sooner the Action, the Cheaper and Easier.
The Copenhagen Accord reaffirms the importance of limiting global warming to 2 °C (3.6 °F), but current national commitments would lead to approximately 3.9 °C (7.0 °F) warming by 2100. To close …
19 December 12:30am: Draft Copenhagen Accord Too Thin to Analyze
Copenhagen -- As of 12:30 am on 19 December, the latest draft text for the Copenhagen Accord has too few quantifiable targets for our team to adequately analyze it. We look forward to using C-ROADS to …
Climate Scoreboard User Note: It Reports Results of National Proposals, Not the Full UNFCCC Copenhagen Agreement
The Climate Scoreboard, created by the Climate Interactive team with the C-ROADS simulator, indicates long-term outcomes of national proposals. It does not yet reflect the content of …
One Month After the Copenhagen Accord, Emissions Reductions Consistent With 2° Target Have Not Materialized
[clearspring_widget title="Climate Scoreboard" wid="4b0afdf054484c54" pid="4b15120637e3b433" width="450" height="399" domain="widgets.clearspring.com"] With January 31st as the 'soft' deadline for …
World Needs Long Term, Post-2020 Climate Targets
How far into the future should policymakers specify the GHG emissions targets they and their nations propose? How far into the future should climate modelers try to forecast the consequences of those …
C-ROADS Version 2.0 — Thinking about drivers of emissions scenarios post 2020
A new simulation from the C-ROADS team is coming! To fully address climate change, we'll need to look at strategies, policies, and investments over the next decade that will affect greenhouse gas …
UNEP Emissions Gap Report Released Today
Today, in events in Helsinki, London, Washington D. C., and Nairobi, the United Nations Environment Program is releasing its Emissions Gap Report which is now available on the both the UNEP webpage …
Emissions Gap Exists, We Can Close It, says Dr. Elizabeth Sawin and 32 other Scientists
What's the latest on the sufficiency of country mitigation pledges to the UN? Now Dr. Beth Sawin of Climate Interactive and 32 other top global scientists have spoken in the UNEP "Emissions Gap …
No Change in the Climate Scoreboard at the Close of the Cancun Talks
With the acceptance of the Cancun Agreements, Climate Interactive’s Climate Scoreboard remains unchanged, showing that current pledges do not go far enough to achieve climate goals. No new pledges, …
Researchers Use Free Online C-ROADS to Run Climate Experiments
Check out the article below, which uses C-Learn, our free online version of C-ROADS, to investigate climate outcomes. We're currently working on a new version of C-Learn that we'll soon release, but …