81% of participants in a role play simulation increased motivation to combat climate change, regardless of political orientation Research published in PLoS ONE finds that 81% of participants in the World Climate Simulation, a role-playing game of the UN climate talks, showed increased motivation to combat climate change, even among Americans who are free market […]
6 Methods to Unlock the Magic of Multisolving
The complex and interconnected challenges facing us today require solutions that pool people’s expertise, funding, and political will to create solutions that multisolve, or solve multiple problems at once. In this article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Elizabeth Sawin offers three principles and three practices to help leaders unlock the magic of multisolving. Read […]
New York Times Op-Ed: Burning Wood is Worse than Coal for the Climate
Is replacing coal burning with biomass good for climate change, or does it actually create more emissions? Climate Interactive and MIT’s John Sterman and a team of scientists from Duke, Oregon State, and Tufts wrote an op-ed in the New York Times countering EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s announcement that the EPA would now consider wood burning […]
New study released: Creating electricity with wood instead of coal worsens climate change
Displacing coal with wood for power generation will worsen climate change say MIT, UMass Lowell and Climate Interactive researchers New research challenges European Union policy that wood bioenergy is carbon neutral Cambridge, Mass., January 16, 2018 – Wood is increasingly being used to replace coal as a source of electricity generation in […]
New MIT Course Features World Climate
A new undergraduate course at MIT, one of the core courses for the newly created Environment & Sustainability minor, will feature the World Climate Simulation. The course, called People and the Planet, will prepare students to bring positive change in the world by helping them understand the policies and regulations behind new energy technologies and […]
“You Fix the Climate” – Behind the New York Times Opinion Piece
The new interactive tool in the New York Times, “You Fix It: Can You Stay Within the World‘s Carbon Budget?” gives you the power to explore over 8,000 scenarios for addressing climate change. For many, experimenting with the opinion piece can be a challenging experience. We recommend that you watch this video or read this post on […]
Public Radio Highlights the Power of Climate Simulations
Earlier this week, NPR’s Heather Goldstone interviewed Climate Interactive partner and MIT Sloan professor John Sterman. The interview discusses Climate Interactive’s World Climate Simulation, a role playing group exercise of the UN climate negotiations that has served as an educational tool for students and CEOs alike. The game was recently updated to reflect President Trump’s […]
Analysis: U.S. Role in the Paris Agreement
By Ellie Johnston, Andrew Jones, Lori Siegel, and John Sterman President Trump is about to decide whether to withdraw from the historic Paris climate agreement or even take the US out of the UN climate negotiation process (UNFCCC). The implications of this decision will be momentous for the US and for the world. To explore […]
Trump & the Paris Agreement: Climate Interactive in the News
Media outlets are speculating on what might become of US climate policies in the face of Trump and have called on us to run the numbers on different scenarios. The latest burst of stories has surrounded news that senior Trump officials are going to hold a meeting to settle the administration’s position on the Paris Agreement. There appears […]
What Slashing Climate Rules Means For the U.S. Pledge to Paris
President Trump has issued an executive order to begin repealing the Clean Power Plan and other Obama-era climate policies. So what are the impacts on the U.S. pledge to the Paris climate agreement? See the story in the New York Times for more. The New York Times used our data and analysis to show the enormous effect in the […]