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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 …
As Heads of State Talk Here in Copenhagen, We’ve Made Progress and Have Further To Go
[clearspring_widget title="Climate Scoreboard" wid="4b0afdf054484c54" pid="4b15120637e3b433" width="450" height="399" domain="widgets.clearspring.com"] Today, as the Heads of State gather here at the …
Bill McKibben’s Guardian UK Article Features Climate Interactive
The following is Bill McKibben's article on the Copenhagen summit, which discusses the importance of numbers in the climate negotiations and Climate Interactive's role in producing them. Find the …
New York Times Dot Earth Blog Features Climate Scoreboard
We're thrilled that, as one of his final set of blog posts as a staff writer at the NY Times, Andy Revkin chose to cover our Climate Scoreboard and the perspective of Climate Interactive team member …
Copenhagen — C-ROADS at the US State Department Center
At the end of the first week of the Copenhagen climate summit, the Climate Interactive team gave a presentation at the US Center on the C-ROADS-CP model. The presentation included an explanation and …
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 …
Breaking News from Copenhagen: National Emissions Reductions Proposals Currently Fall Short of the Targets Defined in the Draft Text from the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action
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 …
“Nature” Article Features Dr. Beth Sawin
The most recent issue of the journal "Nature" featured Beth Sawin in an article entitled "Copenhagen: the scientists' view". The article, put out in advance of Copenhagen, looks at how scientists from …
Dartmouth College at Copenhagen Via Climate Interactive
Dartmouth College released a press release about their impact in Copenhagen at the climate change conference. It focuses on how alumnus Todd Stern, the lead U.S. negotiator, will be using C-ROADS from …