Our recently appointed World Climate Ambassador, Dr. Diana Pritchard, facilitated an exceptional World Climate Simulation involving participants from three generations and from diverse cultural settings that are studying, living and working in Bedfordshire, UK. Each delegation included at least one student, one academic and one representative of a community organisation. Everyone, irrespective of academic level […]
World Climate Simulation at a Business University in Kenya
By Joyce Muthoni Strathmore University, 28 October 2016 – Over 35 Strathmore University students gathered at the Strathmore Business School for the World Climate Simulation organized by the Strathmore Center for Sustainability Leadership and the Strathmore University Student Council in partnership with Climate Interactive. The event aimed at increasing interest in and mobilizing youth […]
What Does the Trump Administration Mean for Climate Change Efforts?
This post was originally published on MIT Sloan’s innovation@work Blog. On November 4, 2016, the historic Paris Agreement on climate change policy (#OurAccord) became international law. “Humanity will look back on November 4, 2016, as the day that countries of the world shut the door on inevitable climate disaster,” said UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa and Moroccan […]
World Climate as a Tool for Turkish Youth in Addressing Climate Change
By Ramazan Oğuz Tosun, World Climate Ambassador With two other members of the Change for Climate (C4C) project – Berina Kılıçarslan and Beyza Özel – I have had the chance to organize two stimulating World Climate events in Turkey. Indeed, our eco-political and social initiative, C4C Project, has made significant progress in only ten months. Our first […]
Upper West Region of Ghana experiences World Climate Simulation
My fourth World Climate Simulation event was at the University for Development Studies, Wa campus in Ghana held on the October 14, 2016 during the World Climate week. The simulation was attended by students from the Department of Environmental Management Studies, graduate students from the Faculty for Integrated Development Studies, and representatives from the Climate Change […]
The New York Times Employs Climate Interactive Data to Chart Out “How Trump Can Influence Climate Change”
Jasmine Lee and Adam Pearce of The New York Times created a digital story, “How Trump Can Influence Climate Change,” exploring what actions were intended to deliver upon the Paris pledge of the U.S., what actions could be lost, and where the U.S. fits globally. We provide the following notes on the various data sources behind the […]
Washington Post Uses Our Thought Experiments to Show What Climate Success Will Take
Chris Mooney of the Washington Post used Climate Interactive scenarios created in the C-ROADS simulator in his article, “This is what it would take for Trump to truly damage the planet’s climate.” The analysis shows that, to achieve Paris temperature limits, climate leaders will need to advocate for both the U.S. reducing its own emissions and […]
Reflections from World Climate Facilitators and Participants
World Climate offers an opportunity to learn by experience. We share some quotes we have received from World Climate facilitators and participants around the world of what they have been able to learn, and how they have been inspired to take action on climate change. Narayan Solanke, facilitated a World Climate Simulation with his students in September, […]
World Climate in Ghana with North and South Participants
My second World Climate Simulation at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, on the 16th September 2016, brought together exceptional environmental science students and researchers from the University of Cape Coast and visiting students from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark who were under Kultierstudier programme in the university. This allowed us to see how participants from the […]
Factsheet — U.S. and China Ratification of the U.N. Paris Agreement by the Numbers
Contact: Andrew Jones, Climate Interactive, apjones@climateinteractive.org, John Sterman, MIT Sloan, jsterman@mit.edu, Ellie Johnston, Climate Interactive, ejohnston@climateinteractive.org, United States and China Ratification of Paris Agreement Accounts for Half of Agreement’s Climate Impact Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan have provided the following calculations and data from their C-ROADS simulation and other sources in light of the […]