What is it that keeps an organization like Climate Interactive ticking? Co-directors Drew Jones and Beth Sawin, along with team member and MIT professor, John Sterman, joined Radio Green Talk host …
The Climate Momentum Simulation
The Climate Momentum Simulation is a widget to explore different scenarios of climate action. It runs in Flash and will only appear below if your internet browser has Flash enabled. …
Transparent, Real-Time Analysis Works
Climate Interactive is a small team with big goals. One of our founding goals was to offer rapid turnaround analysis of the most important climate and energy issues, and to make that analysis …
Durban Talks Open the Door to a Future Global Legal Agreement, But Produce No Immediate Strengthening of Pledges
With the close of COP-17, parties to the UNFCCC maintained the same inadequate emissions reduction pledges, thus committing the world to a more costly and risky path forward than is needed given the …
To Avoid Expensive and Disruptive Rates of Emissions Reduction In Coming Decades Parties Must Increase the Ambition of 2020 Pledges Today
To see a reposting on Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog, click here. And a corroborating report by ClimateWorks Foundation here plus another by Climate Analytics here. Postponing commitment to …
There Doesn’t Have to be an Emissions Gap
Following on last year's Emissions Gap report which was influential in the Cancun COP-16 climate negotiations, Climate Interactive Co-Director, Beth Sawin, again this year contributed to a …
Climate Interactive in Durban at COP17
Climate Interactive is attending the UNFCCC's seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP17). Travis Franck will be meeting with negotiators and partners (old and new) for the first week of the …
Insurance risk industry takes notice of C-ROADS
The actuarial profession is full of models of risk and assessments of associated costs, but as Nico Aspinall explains in her piece published in The Actuary (UK), Climate Interactive's C-ROADS is …
Sterman in the Boston Globe: Preventive care to the utility grid saves dollars and lives
Coming on the heels of an announcement that a forthcoming IPCC report confirms that climate change is causing more extreme weather events, Climate Interactive consortium member and MIT professor, John …
ClimateWire Covers Sterman and Importance of Discovery in Climate Breakthroughs
John Sterman of MIT Sloan, a Climate Interactive consortium member, continues to make headlines with his latest research on communicating climate change. From ClimateWire, below is Evan Lehmann's …
MIT Sloan’s Sterman Breaks Through the Climate Communications Challenge
We're excited that MIT News is covering a new paper by our Climate Interactive consortium member John Sterman of MIT Sloan. Simulations can make a difference! From David L. Chandler, MIT News Office, …
Beth Sawin On Hurricane Irene from Vermont Bioneers: The Big Four Lessons
At the end of August, Vermont was hit by catastrophic flooding as result of Hurricane Irene, which dumped six inches of rain on already saturated hillsides around the state. On Saturday, I (Beth …