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 Lowell Climate Change Initiative, Professor John Sterman of MIT Sloan. Other authors include Eduardo Fracassi, Travis Franck, Florian Kapmeier, Victoria Kurker, Ellie Johnston, Drew Jones, and […]
Run a Simulation for World Climate Week!
We are launching World Climate Week 2017! This will be a week where people like you run the World Climate Simulation around the world. This role playing exercise of the UN climate talks can help to keep up momentum toward ensuring a world where climate change is well below 2°C. From May 15 – 21 we are asking you […]
4 weeks, 4 countries, 7 World Climate Simulations
In May, Climate Interactive launched a new effort to elevate climate awareness across Africa ahead of COP22 with the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic. Since then, the World Climate Africa team has run seven World Climate simulations and trainings in Morocco, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa. More than 120 people from academia, the private sector and […]
Vanuatu Youth Hold First Mock-Climate Negotiation in the Pacific Islands
On August 13, 2015, over eighty youth climate activists attended the first ever mock UNFCCC climate negotiations held in the Pacific Islands. Using the Climate Interactive World Climate program and C-ROADS software, the participants assembled in Port Vila, Vanuatu, were tasked with negotiating a legally binding global treaty on carbon emissions reductions. Vanuatu youth from Malapoa […]
C-Learn Simulation Puts High-Powered Climate Analysis in Hands of Educators and Students
Climate policy analysis is accessible to anyone with the online C-Learn simulation. Just plug in your estimates of what kind of emissions reductions you think it will take to limit global warming to 2 degrees (or whatever your goal is) to see the effect on the rise of temperature, sea levels, or global CO2 concentration. C-Learn […]
World Climate Now in 4 Languages
Our World Climate Exercise, a role-playing game that simulates the UN climate change negotiations, has been played around the world from classes of school children in Austria to a visiting group of Chinese officials at MIT. The interest and enthusiasm from the community of people leading this exercise has meant several have volunteered to translate our materials from […]