After much anticipation, the U.N. recently released its Fifth Assessment Report on climate change, leaving us with more certainty than ever that we need to do more to address the effects of climate ...
Gas Alone Not a Bridge to Two Degrees
Think Progress blogger Joe Romm takes Climate Interactive's analysis on the lifetime of fossil fuel infrastructure to build the case that natural gas is not a bridge to a carbon free future. His post ...
March 12th: Climate Interactive at Oxford discussing future energy scenarios
Climate Interactive Co-Directors Beth Sawin and Drew Jones will be giving an interactive presentation tomorrow, March 12th, at Oxford Universtiy's Saïd Business School on our global energy model ...
World Energy Exercise: Putting You in Control of Our Energy Future
Climate Interactive has developed the World Energy Exercise to provide a simulation-based experience to help deepen participants' understanding of potential policy and investment scenarios to address ...
Carbon Prices, Regulation, and New Technology: En-ROADS Shows if it Will Work
With Climate Interactive's En-ROADS simulation it becomes possible to try out differently energy policies and scenarios and quickly see how they will effect our world. Recently Climate Interactive ...
Copenhagen Goal Within Reach, But Only With Global Action Far Beyond Today’s Most Ambitious Actions
Even if the world also has sustained success eliminating deforestation, reducing emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gasses and improving energy efficiency, new investment in fossil fuel infrastructure ...
Plotting the Clean Energy Transition: Grad Students Use En-ROADS for New Insights
Last week graduate students at Stanford University got a special treat. As part of the Energy@Stanford & SLAC conference, students in energy-related fields at Stanford got to play with En-ROADS, ...
Eileen Claussen on En-ROADS: We Have Our Work Cut Out For Us
Recently Drew Jones was down in Washington DC working with the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and their Business Environmental Leadership Council to explore future energy and climate ...
Drew Jones Shares Insights on Natural Gas as a Climate Bridge Through Interactive Simulation
We know that coal is not our ticket to keeping the planet cool, but does an anything-but-coal solution work? In this video Climate Interactive Co-Director Drew Jones uses our new simulation En-ROADS ...
Cheap Natural Gas Has the Potential to Weaken a Critical Feedback Loop Needed for the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
Early adoption of renewable energy helps jump start the transition to a low-carbon economy via a reinforcing feedback loop. Anything that diminishes early adoption of renewable energy - including ...
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 ...