Blog post by John Sterman, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, April 25, 2016. On Friday, April 22, 175 countries signed the historic Paris Climate Agreement. Problem solved, …
World Climate in Morelia, Mexico – We need to act and act now!
Guest post by Miguel Angel Salinas Melgoza, a facilitator of the World Climate Exercise. Seventeen undergraduate students learned valuable lessons through engaging in the World Climate simulation at …
MEDIA RELEASE: Deeper, Earlier Emissions Cuts Needed to Reach Paris Goals
For Immediate Release: Paris Agreement Pledges Must Be Strengthened in Next Few Years to Limit Warming to 2°C Nations need to significantly strengthen the Paris pledges for emissions reductions …
FLOWER – A Simple Tool for Groups to Develop Climate Solutions with Multiple Benefits
Projects that protect the climate can also boost well-being, equity, or resilience. But for groups of stakeholders with limited time and many complex goals and constraints it can be challenging to …
Want to run a World Climate simulation? Don’t have time to do it yourself?
You can request a World Climate Expert Facilitator to lead your group in a simulation of the UN climate change negotiations. We have over 30 Expert Facilitators who can come to you to facilitate your …
7th Graders Become UN Climate Negotiators for a Day
Guest blog by Ginger Wallis, a teacher in New Hampshire who ran the World Climate mock-UN negotiations simulation for her seventh-grade students. Below are her reflections on the exercise. The kids …
Students Address Climate Change Using the World Energy Simulation
Guest post by Steve Kaagan, author of several books on leadership in education In late February, the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) ran a competition which …
Six Opportunities to Benefit Children’s Health and the Climate
As climate change worsens, health risks increase. Less well recognized is the converse - many of the attitudes and actions that protect the climate of the future also help improve health today. Here …
Using the World Climate Simulation in a Virtual Classroom
Guest post by Dr. Marsha Willard, faculty of MBA in Sustainable Systems, Pinchot University, Seattle, WA. In spite of the limitations of a virtual classroom, Dr. Willard was able to use the World …
The Paris Climate Talks: Deliverance or Disappointment?
At a recent forum at MIT, Professor John Sterman outlined the significance of the Paris climate agreement, along with the challenges that lie ahead. Sterman asks: "Does [the Paris Agreement] deliver …
Most City-Level Climate Pacts Embrace Multisolving
One way to distinguish among the proliferation of pacts and pledges for city-level climate action is to look at the extent to which each one prepares cities to capture and communicate about the …
We All Can Create Co-Benefits With Our Climate Efforts – Practical Tools For Multisolvers
Have you heard of multisolving? You may not recognize the word, but you’ve probably heard the idea described in different ways. For example: Capturing multiple benefits or co-benefits of …