Blog post by John Sterman, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, April 25, 2016. On Friday, April 22, 175 countries signed the historic Paris Climate Agreement. Problem solved, right? Make no mistake—the Paris agreement is historic. We all know that politics is the art of the possible. Getting nearly 200 nations to agree on […]
MEDIA RELEASE: Deeper, Earlier Emissions Cuts Needed to Reach Paris Goals
For Immediate Release: Paris Agreement Pledges Must Be Strengthened in Next Few Years to Limit Warming to 2°C Nations need to significantly strengthen the Paris pledges for emissions reductions between now and 2030 in order to limit projected warming below 2°C (3.6°F), according to new analysis released from Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan. More than […]
Gas Alone Not a Bridge to Two Degrees
Think Progress blogger Joe Romm takes Climate Interactive‘s analysis on the lifetime of fossil fuel infrastructure to build the case that natural gas is not a bridge to a carbon free future. His post announces the premier of Gasland 2 this evening in the U.S., a documentary on the harmful effects of natural gas. Here’s an […]
Plotting the Clean Energy Transition: Grad Students Use En-ROADS for New Insights
Last week graduate students at Stanford University got a special treat. As part of the Energy@Stanford & SLAC conference, students in energy-related fields at Stanford got to play with En-ROADS, Climate Interactive’s latest simulator, which demonstrates how different energy policies could make a difference in the decades to come. Exploring whether the accelerated retirement of coal-fired […]