Stories come back to us here at Climate Interactive from time to time that remind us that our work is making a difference. The following comes out of the MIT News Office about a graduate student who, …
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Can a Graph Be a Call to Action?
A new article, 2011 Climate Change in Pictures and Data: Just the Facts, shares, in just two pages, seven of the most important graphs on the planet. The datasets are striking, and author …
Transparent, Real-Time Analysis Works
Climate Interactive is a small team with big goals. One of our founding goals was to offer rapid turnaround analysis of the most important climate and energy issues, and to make that analysis …
Durban Talks Open the Door to a Future Global Legal Agreement, But Produce No Immediate Strengthening of Pledges
With the close of COP-17, parties to the UNFCCC maintained the same inadequate emissions reduction pledges, thus committing the world to a more costly and risky path forward than is needed given the …
To Avoid Expensive and Disruptive Rates of Emissions Reduction In Coming Decades Parties Must Increase the Ambition of 2020 Pledges Today
To see a reposting on Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog, click here. And a corroborating report by ClimateWorks Foundation here plus another by Climate Analytics here. Postponing commitment to …
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 …
Insurance risk industry takes notice of C-ROADS
The actuarial profession is full of models of risk and assessments of associated costs, but as Nico Aspinall explains in her piece published in The Actuary (UK), Climate Interactive's C-ROADS is …
Beth Sawin On Hurricane Irene from Vermont Bioneers: The Big Four Lessons
At the end of August, Vermont was hit by catastrophic flooding as result of Hurricane Irene, which dumped six inches of rain on already saturated hillsides around the state. On Saturday, I (Beth …
Tropical Storm Irene Hits Close to Home
Climate Interactive Co-Director Beth Sawin (who is coping with life in newly flooded Vermont – she and family are okay BTW) posted a timely perspective on this week’s Irene disaster on Romm’s Climate …
Reducing Energy Demand: It’s Not Only About Technology And It Doesn’t Always Require Experts
In transforming our world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions there's room for the creativity of all of us. In our simulation modeling of the transition to a low-carbon economy, we find plenty of …
Mexican Environment Minister Elvira – “Emissions Gap Report Will Be One of the Most Influential Documents Since AR4”
At a press conference at the UNFCCC climate talks in Mexico today UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner formally presented the Emissions Gap Report to the government of Mexico, and panelists including …
UNEP Emissions Gap Report Released Today
Today, in events in Helsinki, London, Washington D. C., and Nairobi, the United Nations Environment Program is releasing its Emissions Gap Report which is now available on the both the UNEP webpage …