The Climate Interactive team, led by Sustainability Institute, delivered big results in Copenhagen at the UNFCCC’s COP15 climate conference. Bill McKibben wrote in the UK Guardian, from Copenhagen: “the only people who really understand what’s going on may be a small crew … called Climate Interactive. Their software speaks numbers, not spin – and in […]
As Heads of State Talk Here in Copenhagen, We’ve Made Progress and Have Further To Go
[clearspring_widget title=”Climate Scoreboard” wid=”4b0afdf054484c54″ pid=”4b15120637e3b433″ width=”450″ height=”399″ domain=”widgets.clearspring.com”] Today, as the Heads of State gather here at the Copenhagen Conference, our calculations show that current confirmed proposals are not yet ambitious enough to limit temperature increase to 1.5-2°C (2.7-3.6°F) over pre-industrial temperatures. As shown above in the Climate Scoreboard, we estimate a temperature increase of 3.9°C (7.0°F) […]
Copenhagen — C-ROADS at the US State Department Center
At the end of the first week of the Copenhagen climate summit, the Climate Interactive team gave a presentation at the US Center on the C-ROADS-CP model. The presentation included an explanation and demonstration of the model, a user’s testimony of the model by Trevor Houser from the US State Department, as well as an […]
Climate Interactive Presents C-ROADS and Scoreboard in Copenhagen
On Wednesday, here at COP15 in Copenhagen, the Climate Interactive team and partners presented the C-ROADS simulation and the Climate Scoreboard at the Bellona Room in the Bella Center to demonstrate our tools to support the negotiations. Watch a video of the presentation here.
Climate Interactive Events in Copenhagen
We hope to see many of you in Copenhagen! If you will be in Copenhagen, look for members of our extended team using C-ROADS and sharing the Climate Scoreboard: Drew Jones (SI), Beth Sawin (SI), John Sterman (MIT), Lori Siegel (SI), Tom Fiddaman (Ventana Systems), Bob Corell (CAI), and Travis Franck (Tufts). And please join […]
Senator John Kerry Introduces the C-ROADS Climate Simulator
Senator John Kerry uses C-ROADS to help him understand the where the proposals to COP15 in Copenhagen are headed. Below is the video of Senator Kerry speaking at an event hosted by the American Meteorological Society in Washington DC, describing the C-ROADS simulator, how he used it, and how it reports the “state of the […]
Nature News Covers “Instant” C-ROADS
Check out Nature’s article by Jeff Tollefson from this morning. It discusses how our C-ROADS model “translates complex climate modeling into readily digestible predictions.” The story is posted here and pasted below. Instant climate model gears up Simulation tool gives rapid feedback on implications of policy changes. by Jeff Tollefson A climate simulator that started […]
Washington Post Covers C-ROADS – And Here’s A Different Framing
https:// This morning, the Washington Post covered an important speech by colleague and Climate Action Initiative Chair Dr. Bob Corell, with the headline “New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase.” Front page on website yesterday and page three in print this morning. They even included a clear graph from C-ROADS! We look at […]
C-ROADS Covered in Major German Press
Sorry to the non-German-reading folks, but thought we’d share how the simulation is getting picked up in Europe. Thanks to colleague Felicity von Peter for making it happen. Click here to view the full text of the article. Here’s an excerpt: „Verschafft uns Klarheit über die Klimaziele“, forderte bei einer Klimakonferenz im März in Kopenhagen […]
Developed World Strikes a Climate Deal with Developing World (in a sim at least)
For the first time in our ~20 runnings of the simulation-based “Mock-UN” role-playing exercise, The Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World Climate), the delegates from the developed world moved first in striking a global deal on climate. (For more on the sim behind the exercise and why the heck we ask people in nice clothes to […]