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 Interactive and MIT Sloan's …
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 …
Carbon Dioxide Removal Features Improved in En-ROADS
As part of our continuous improvement of the En-ROADS simulator, this month we released added detail for a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technique called enhanced mineralization. CDR has been in …
Dear Other En–ROADS Climate Ambassadors, Try The Game!
It’s fun, and not as hard as you think I’ve been an En-ROADS Climate Ambassador since March, and I always thought I’d be a "workshop-only" one. I ran my first workshop in my living room before the …
Stanford Graduate Students Compete in En-ROADS Challenge
In September 2020, 126 graduate and professional students at Stanford University used Climate Interactive’s En-ROADS simulator to confront a monumental challenge. Their mission: to recommend a …
New Op-Ed: COVID-19 recovery spending could catalyze transformative change, but time is running out
Written by Cassandra Breeze Ceballos and Dr. Elizabeth Sawin; published in full by The Hill …
December 2020 C-ROADS Update
The December 2020 update to C-ROADS includes three significant changes to the modeling and interface of the simulator: 1. A new Baseline Scenario (renamed from "Business as Usual"), which leads to …
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 …
The Earth has humans, so why don’t our climate models?
Over the past few decades, climate researchers have improved our understanding of global warming scenarios by increasing the complexity and precision of climate. These large models, using lots of …
Using Simulations to Interactively Engage Students
Climate Interactive’s Ellie Johnston recently led a guest webinar for the Climate Generation organization – a not-for-profit dedicated to enhancing climate education and inspiring youth leadership. …
Top Nine Ways to Take Your En-ROADS Climate Workshop from Good to Great
After many hours of helping beginner facilitators lead En-ROADS Climate Workshops, we’ve developed with some suggestions for taking your facilitation skills to the next level: Share these five …
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 …