Is replacing coal burning with biomass good for climate change, or does it actually create more emissions? Climate Interactive and MIT’s John Sterman and a team of scientists from Duke, Oregon State, and Tufts wrote an op-ed in the New York Times countering EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s announcement that the EPA would now consider wood burning […]
Milestone: Forestry and Soil Carbon and the Agriculture and Land Policy Simulator
Climate Interactive, working with our partners at University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) in Morocco, has completed the second major model release for our Climate Smart Agriculture in Africa project. Now titled the Agriculture and Land Policy Simulator (ALPS), it builds upon the versions introduced this spring and last fall. This system dynamics decision support tool helps policymakers see what […]
What Hope Means: A Podcast and a Webinar from MIT’s John Sterman
This week, MIT released a podcast featuring Climate Interactive member and MIT professor Dr. John Sterman. The podcast, a part of MIT Sloan School’s “Data Made to Matter” series, discusses how Climate Interactive’s data-based climate simulator helps citizens and policymakers alike understand the implications of climate change, the US exit from the Paris agreement, and the need […]
Climate Interactive Quantifies Implications of Trump Presidency for the Climate
In several interviews with prominent media outlets, Climate Interactive’s Andrew Jones and MIT’s Prof. John Sterman elaborated the potential effect of president-elect Trump pulling out of the Paris climate agreement. As Andrew Jones said, “Pulling out of the Paris agreement matters not just in leadership, but also in a direct impact on the climate.” Based […]
Next steps for C-ROADS and climate change
This was originally posted on MIT Sloan’s Innovation@Work Blog. Earlier this spring, MIT Sloan Professor John Sterman presented an important and well-attended live webinar, The Dynamics of Climate Change–from the Political to the Personal. One of the highlights of the webinar was a live demonstration of C-ROADS (Climate Rapid Overview and Decision Support): a free, […]
One Professor’s Enthusiasm for Interactive Classes Ripples Outwards
After a colleague led a training in using Climate Interactive’s role playing exercises, Professor Michele Putko ran with the idea and is now teaching her college engineering students to run the workshops themselves for high school audiences. Michele’s undergraduates have already reached 100 high school students at 3 different schools. This is tapping into a powerful […]
Dr. Florian Kapmeier and World Climate Inspire German Students
A group of German college students learned that early action is needed in the fight against global climate change when Professor Dr. Florian Kapmeier led them in the World Climate exercise. The event was highlighted in Reutlinger General-Anzeiger, the local newspaper where the students attend college. The students, who attend Reutlingen University’s ESB Business School in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, dived […]
Eduardo Pedro Fracassi: Climate Student to Climate Star
In three years, Professor Eduardo Pedro Fracassi has journeyed from being inactive on climate change progress to making a major impact with Climate Interactive’s World Climate Exercise. He’s gone from Climate Student to Climate Star. After seeing a presentation of Climate Interactive’s work, Eduardo co-facilitated with fellow professor Fabian Szulanski 17 World Climate Exercise workshops, proposed a Climate Engineering course at the Buenos […]
Climate Interactive presents in Geneva Friday
If you’re in Geneva, join us this Friday for a presentation on our project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. System dynamics modeling is one of the main innovations of our project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). With our partners, we are working to improve resilience of people affected by repeated displacement. The […]
World Energy at NCSE Energy & Climate Conference
Climate Interactive’s World Energy Exercise enables participants to take on the role of leaders from key economic and energy sectors and negotiate a climate and energy deal. Later this month, participants at the National Council for Science and the Environment’s (NCSE) 15th National Conference and Global Forum on Science Policy and the Environment: Energy and Climate Change will have an opportunity to design their own […]