The core drivers of climate change cause other problems too. The good news is, for every problem there's a group of people who would benefit from solving it. From the first exploratory survey for ...
The Green Infrastructure Decision Support Tool – Lessons and Possibilities
At Climate Interactive, we create tools that help political leaders and decision-makers make smart decisions in the face of a change climate. While many of our tools take a global perspective, our ...
DRC Trip to See Multiple Displacement Firsthand
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is amazingly beautiful. Though torn by decades of war and violence, I understand why others have referred to the region as a 'land of plenty' -- good soil ...
Pastoralist Simulator Helps Global Conversation on Drought-Induced Displacement
Climate Interactive was proud to participate in an important global meeting in Nairobi recently. The Nansen Initiative is an on-going international conversation on the situation of 'cross-border ...
Small But Mighty: Climate Interactive Ranked 12th Best Climate Think Tank in the World
Climate Interactive placed 12th among 210 climate change economics and policy think tanks around the world, and 4th best in the United States, according to the International Center for Climate ...
Building Theories on Community Resilience in Africa
If a small village is subject to an external shock like a drought, a war, or a flood, its residents will likely suffer material and/or human losses, but hopefully rebuild and thrive. If that same ...
Seeing the Global Energy and Climate Transition – Simulations in Action
The possibilities are expansive for young leaders to imagine the future they’d like to see, as they use systems thinking and simulations, like En-ROADS and C-ROADS. Here are some of the highlights of ...
Using Simulations to Transform Climate Education
With funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative and Climate Interactive are partnering to bring transformative climate change education tools to ...
Climate Interactive Showcases Drought and Displacement Simulation before UN
As global warming advances, much of the planet’s most vulnerable population is already seeing its livelihood affected. In some cases, the effect is so strong that people must uproot their lives ...
C-ROADS receives System Dynamics Society Award
On Tuesday in Cambridge, MA the Climate Interactive team won an award for the Best "Real World" Application of System Dynamics at the annual conference of the System Dynamics Society. The award goes ...
New project! Green Infrastructure As a Transformative Response to Climate Change
“Anyone who thinks that there is not a dramatic change in weather patterns is denying reality. We have a new reality, and old infrastructures and old systems.” So stated New York Governor Cuomo in ...
Data-mining in Kenya
“The data might just be in filing cabinets at each border crossing.” We always knew it was going to be tough to make a model of drought-induced population displacement in Kenya, and this comment in ...