Climate change has entered the forefront of national dialogue. In government, in organizations, and across sectors, people are talking about climate change. Systems thinking suggests that conversations about climate policy and climate action will be most productive if they are based on a full accounting of the costs and benefits of particular actions. However, too […]
Big Updates Coming for En-ROADS, Our Climate Solution Simulator
For the last six months we have been hard at work on a newly updated version of our climate solution simulator En-ROADS that we will release later this year. This new tool will put the best available science on climate change solutions at your fingertips, so you can show others what is needed to address […]
World Climate Simulation Grows in Popularity Worldwide
World Climate, our UN climate negotiation role-playing exercise, has reached over 50,000 people since we started keeping record in 2015! These participants have attended more than 1,100 events in at least 85 countries. Remarkably, these events have been led by over 500 facilitators who range from university professors and youth activists to business leaders and […]
US News Op-Ed: Can 2019 Be the Year of the Climate Pivot?
READ OUR US NEWS & WORLD REPORT OP ED 2018 brought record-breaking extreme weather events: drought, floods, hurricanes, and the deadliest wildfire in California history, all exacerbated by man-made climate change. Beth Sawin of Climate Interactive and Nathaniel Smith of Partnership for Southern Equity propose that 2019 could be the year when cities turn the […]
From MIT Sloan: This Tool Is Pushing People To take Action On Climate Change
Originally posted on the MIT Sloan School of Management Newsroom on October 11, 2018 by Meredith Somers, re-posted with permission. Research led by Professor Juliette Rooney-Varga of the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative, Professor John Sterman of MIT Sloan. Other authors include Eduardo Fracassi, Travis Franck, Florian Kapmeier, Victoria Kurker, Ellie Johnston, Drew Jones, and […]
New York Times Op-Ed: Climate Still Worth Fighting For
READ OUR NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED Increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters around the world. Disappearing islands and coastlines. Mass species extinction and biodiversity loss. Powerful fossil fuel forces contributing to it all. As Climate Interactive’s Andrew P. Jones and Auden Schendler, Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, make clear in […]
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 World Climate Simulation, a role-playing game of the UN climate talks, showed increased motivation to combat climate change, even among Americans who are free market […]
How to Ensure Your Multisolving Project Delivers Results
Multisolving project leaders share five strategies that have powered their work We were very fortunate to have three leaders of multisolving projects that we featured in our Multisolving at the Intersection of Health and Climate report share their work and their stories with us via a webinar this week. Lucy Saunders spoke about the Healthy Streets […]
Join Climate Interactive in Reykjavik
Travis Franck of the Agriculture team will be representing Climate Interactive at the 36th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society in Reykjavik, Iceland from August 6-10. Come talk to him about any of our programs: agriculture, multisolving, climate, or energy. Travis will be presenting a paper written with our partners at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in […]
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 once. In this article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Elizabeth Sawin offers three principles and three practices to help leaders unlock the magic of multisolving. Read […]