Check out the following post from Climate Interactive partner Dr. John Sterman of MIT's Sloan School. View a post here on Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog. Start with “Amber Waves of Green,” directed …
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Pledge Assessment Process Takes Cl to Geneva
We've written earlier about Climate Interactive's participation in a series of workshops convened by UNEP and the European Climate Foundation, focused on a scientific assessment of the greenhouse gas …
From Uplifting to Sobering: Perspectives From Dr. Beth Sawin on the UNFCCC session in Bonn
A few quick thoughts and reactions as I prepare to leave Bonn tomorrow after a few days working with a group of scientists assessing the 'emissions gap' and after spending some time at the site of the …
Honoring Dr. Stephen Schneider and Acknowledging His Guidance
We were saddened to hear of the death of a great scientist and sustainability leader, Dr. Stephen Schneider. As others have chronicled, he was a brilliant champion for rigorous and …
C-ROADS Team Heads to Bonn UNFCCC
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin and Andrew Jones of Climate Interactive are bringing real-time C-ROADS climate analysis to the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, Germany this week. We'll meet with the other scientists …
The Benshi: “It was very cool. Very very cool.”
Today we have guest post by the Science Communicator Guru Randy Olson, who wrote an excellent book "Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style " and has a great blog as well, The …
One Month After the Copenhagen Accord, Emissions Reductions Consistent With 2° Target Have Not Materialized
[clearspring_widget title="Climate Scoreboard" wid="4b0afdf054484c54" pid="4b15120637e3b433" width="450" height="399" domain="widgets.clearspring.com"] With January 31st as the 'soft' deadline for …
Fiddaman Doesn’t Mourn the Copenhagen Accord’s Missing Emissions Targets
(This is a guest post by Climate Interactive team member Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems. His terrific blog is here. This post originally ran at the blog of Xujun Eberlein: Inside Out China.) I've …
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 …
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 …
Copenhagen must deliver emissions cuts beyond the high-end of current proposals
In the past few weeks, four groups, including the C-ROADS team, have released analysis of the current proposals in the UNFCCC negotiations. While details vary between the studies, all four analyses …