The prevalence of games in our culture provides an opportunity to increase the understanding of our global challenges. In 2008 the Pew Research Center estimated that over half of American adults …
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Students Experience Climate Negotiations in Simulation-Based Role-play Exercise
Providing a look at the reactions and lessons learned after participating in the World Climate Exercise, the video below shares new insights into the experiences of World Climate …
Climate Interactive and our simulations align with plea of UN Panel
“Measures should be taken to strengthen the interface between policymaking and science in order to facilitate informed political decision-making on sustainable development issues.” So reads one of …
What we do and why are we doing it: a radio interview with Climate Interactive
What is it that keeps an organization like Climate Interactive ticking? Co-directors Drew Jones and Beth Sawin, along with team member and MIT professor, John Sterman, joined Radio Green Talk host …
ClimateWire Covers Sterman and Importance of Discovery in Climate Breakthroughs
John Sterman of MIT Sloan, a Climate Interactive consortium member, continues to make headlines with his latest research on communicating climate change. From ClimateWire, below is Evan Lehmann's …
MIT Sloan’s Sterman Breaks Through the Climate Communications Challenge
We're excited that MIT News is covering a new paper by our Climate Interactive consortium member John Sterman of MIT Sloan. Simulations can make a difference! From David L. Chandler, MIT News Office, …
Australia’s Gillard Is Right on Climate Dynamics: “Nothing Hard Ever Gets Easier By Waiting”
"I've learned in my life that nothing hard ever gets easier by waiting." That was Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, addressing the national press club about her stance on carbon prices last …
Three Reasons To Keep on Working on Climate Education and Energy Policy
"Wow. I just want to cry. Please tell me we are making a difference."’ Those were the words of a colleague today after she watched a video illustrating a recent Bill McKibben essay about a rising …
The Importance of the Next Five and 10 Years – Climate Simulations Convey What the Author of the Widely Known Stern Report Considers the ‘Great Challenge’ of Climate Communication
Nicholas Stern, when asked in a recent interview by the MIT Technology Review, about the sense of urgency he was trying to convey in the Stern Review, published five years ago this fall, had this to …
Drew Jones Presents C-ROADS Lessons at EPA Climate Impact Simulation Conference
Last month, Drew Jones presented at the EPA's "Integrated Modeling to Characterize Climate Change Impacts and Support Decision Making" conference in Atlanta, GA. In the video above, he discusses the …
Serious Climate Games Launched in Asheville — With Drew Jones and C-ROADS
On February 24, several innovative climate simulation and gaming tools will be presented in Asheville, NC (most notably the new and cool "Fate of the World.") Climate Interactive's Drew Jones will be …
John Sterman on C-ROADS Impacts in the World — at System Dynamics Conference in Korea
Check out the video below of Dr. John Sterman's presentation of "The Road from Copenhagen: Supporting International Climate Negotiations with the C-ROADS Simulation" for the International Conference …