The new interactive tool in the New York Times, “You Fix It: Can You Stay Within the World‘s Carbon Budget?” gives you the power to explore over 8,000 scenarios for addressing climate change. For many, experimenting with the opinion piece can be a challenging experience. We recommend that you watch this video or read this post on […]
Analysis: U.S. Role in the Paris Agreement
By Ellie Johnston, Andrew Jones, Lori Siegel, and John Sterman President Trump is about to decide whether to withdraw from the historic Paris climate agreement or even take the US out of the UN climate negotiation process (UNFCCC). The implications of this decision will be momentous for the US and for the world. To explore […]
What Slashing Climate Rules Means For the U.S. Pledge to Paris
President Trump has issued an executive order to begin repealing the Clean Power Plan and other Obama-era climate policies. So what are the impacts on the U.S. pledge to the Paris climate agreement? See the story in the New York Times for more. The New York Times used our data and analysis to show the enormous effect in the […]
World Climate Organized to Pilot Learning about Climate and International Debates
Written by Dr. Diana Pritchard, University of Bedfordshire, England Climate change, one of the biggest challenges facing our societies, impacts increasingly on our communities locally and across the world. While the UK government together with other nations work on crucial political agreements to mitigate against the worst effects and finance adaptation efforts, there is a need […]
Video – Ten Reasons to Be Hopeful for the Climate
Climate Interactive Co-Director Andrew (Drew) Jones shared his top ten reasons to be hopeful for the climate in this dynamic presentation for the Sierra Club (16 minutes). It includes a demo of the team’s free, open-source simulator, C-ROADS.
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 […]
Tips for Running the World Climate Simulation for Large Groups
What do you do when you have more than 60 participants who want to play World Climate? I’ve run the game with 150 adults at a USAID conference, 415 high-school students in their gym, and 450 environment and development professionals at a meeting in Sweden. Here are my tips. Just do it. World Climate works well […]
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 […]
World Climate Succeeds at COP 22
At eight events, hundreds of people from across the world have had a chance to experience how it feels like to negotiate an ambitious global climate deal using Climate Interactive’s rigorous tools, C-ROADS and World Climate. This is how it happened. By engaging the business community, Prof. John Sterman was able to challenge the business […]
The Kigali Deal on HFCs Is Important but Won’t Save us Another Half a Degree
The Kigali Amendment on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) is excellent news for the climate. It tackles a powerful greenhouse gas, binds parties to take action with more teeth than the Paris Agreement, and demonstrates again our international capacity to cooperate. This Amendment looks to be the largest single action that will deliver on the pledges in the […]