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 Simulation in Bhutan. We brought the UNFCCC Conference of Parties into our school, the College of Natural Resources, Lobesa, Punakha, Bhutan. We were supported and […]
13 countries, one game – A call for Climate Action
By Carla Madueno Florian It was in November 2017 at the Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany when I first heard about the World Climate simulation. Amazed and convinced by the power of this tool recommended by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for climate awareness, I decided to run the World Climate simulation with a […]
Office for Climate Education is launched in France
By Laurent Richard, World Climate Ambassador and Director of Albedo Climat. French version here. On March 16th, the Office for Climate Education, OCE was officially launched in France with the main objectives of training and providing climate education resources to teachers of students aged 9-15 years. Climate Interactive tools are part of this effort. The organisation will […]
L’Office for Climate Education a été lancé en France
By Laurent Richard, World Climate Ambassador and Director of Albedo Climat. English version here Le 16 mars dernier, l’Office pour l’éducation au climat (Office for Climate Education, OCE) a officiellement été créé en France. Son principal objet est de former et de fournir des ressources pédagogiques aux enseignants des élèves âgés de 9 à 15 ans. […]
Warm Up New Zealand is Multisolving with Home Insulation
A government program in New Zealand demonstrates how health, economic vitality, and climate protection can all be enhanced via investments in energy efficiency. A radical move What would it look like if, in the middle of an economic crisis, your government invested in a program aimed at keeping vulnerable households warm? What if this action […]
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 oblivious to the magnitude of the challenge that we face. In order to bridge this gap of knowledge and action, I started COP […]
Tips on how to Customize World Climate for Different Audiences
Laura Tucker, from Jefferson County, Washington, shares her tips of facilitating World Climate with middle schoolers and adults in 2017. I was asked by the local Unitarian Church to offer a climate change class for their adult learning program. After watching an introductory video about C-ROADS, I thought World Climate would be the ideal way […]
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 that wood bioenergy is carbon neutral Cambridge, Mass., January 16, 2018 – Wood is increasingly being used to replace coal as a source of electricity generation in […]
Join the Creative Learning Exchange for World Climate @DynamiQueST
On March 16, the Creative Learning Exchange is hosting a World Climate Simulation at the DynamiQueST event at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Each year, DynamiQueST showcases the use of systems thinking and system dynamics tools in K-12 education. Last year, the World Climate Simulation made the event accessible to those who have not had […]
German High Schools to Learn about Climate Change using World Climate Tools
We are inspired by the tireless efforts of our World Climate Ambassador, Florian Kapmeier, to ensure that World Climate becomes one of the tools for teaching climate change in high schools in Germany. At a side-event at COP 23 in Bonn, Florian presented the outcome of this collaboration with the Ministry of Education of the […]