For the last six months we have been hard at work on a newly updated version of our climate solution simulator En-ROADS that we will release later this year. This new tool will put the best available …
US News Op-Ed: Can 2019 Be the Year of the Climate Pivot?
READ OUR US NEWS & WORLD REPORT OP ED 2018 brought record-breaking extreme weather events: drought, floods, hurricanes, and the deadliest wildfire in California history, all exacerbated by …
Green Infrastructure Project in Jordan Combats Environmental & Social Challenges
More than half a million Syrian refugees have fled to neighboring Jordan since the armed conflict began eight years ago, straining the host country’s water, housing, and electric sectors, as well as …
From MIT Sloan: This Tool Is Pushing People To take Action On Climate Change
Originally posted on the MIT Sloan School of Management Newsroom on October 11, 2018 by Meredith Somers, re-posted with permission. Research led by Professor Juliette Rooney-Varga of the UMass …
New York Times Op-Ed: Climate Still Worth Fighting For
READ OUR NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED Increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters around the world. Disappearing islands and coastlines. Mass species extinction and biodiversity loss. …
Is the Key to Sparking Climate Action a Game? New Research Suggests It Is, Even Across the Political Divide
81% of participants in a role play simulation increased motivation to combat climate change, regardless of political orientation Research published in PLOS ONE finds that 81% of participants in the …
6 Methods to Unlock the Magic of Multisolving
The complex and interconnected challenges facing us today require solutions that pool people's expertise, funding, and political will to create solutions that multisolve, or solve multiple problems at …
Bringing the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations Home to Maine
This guest post was written by: Anna McGinn, Dr. Molly Schauffler, and Will Kochtitzky The annual United Nations meeting to negotiate on climate change (called the Conference of the Parties—COP) is a …
First World Climate Simulation in Bhutan Yields Commitments
By Sunil Sapkota, COPInMyCity Asia Officer On 24th of March 2018, I along with 70 other participants, celebrated WWF's Earth Hour Day with CliMates facilitating the first ever World Climate …
Play These Two Games for Climate Adaptation
In the past, we shared a range of games that enhance communication of climate change processes and risks. In this post, guest blogger Sarah Nobis at the Centre for Systems Solutions suggests two new …
Pakistan Hosts Competitive World Climate & World Energy Simulations
By Omer Akif Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world. It is the world's sixth most populated nation, however, a significant portion of its citizens remain …
New study released: Creating electricity with wood instead of coal worsens climate change
Displacing coal with wood for power generation will worsen climate change say MIT, UMass Lowell and Climate Interactive researchers New research challenges European Union policy …