Our Climate Scoreboard has been broadcasting the state of global climate commitments since 2009. At the Copenhagen climate negotiations “Climate Scoreboard” and its readings were found on a confidential draft of the Copenhagen Accord that was leaked to the Guardian. In the years since, even with negotiations in Cancun and Durban, the results of the […]
What we do and why are we doing it: a radio interview with Climate Interactive
What is it that keeps an organization like Climate Interactive ticking? Co-directors Drew Jones and Beth Sawin, along with team member and MIT professor, John Sterman, joined Radio Green Talk host Diana Dehm to discuss this and elaborate on why we provide the tools that we do. During the program John discusses how we use […]
Durban Talks Open the Door to a Future Global Legal Agreement, But Produce No Immediate Strengthening of Pledges
With the close of COP-17, parties to the UNFCCC maintained the same inadequate emissions reduction pledges, thus committing the world to a more costly and risky path forward than is needed given the immediate availability of cost-effective measures to reduce emissions and begin the transition to a low-carbon economy. As our previous analysis showed, postponing […]
UK’s Guardian Covers Climate Scoreboard
[clearspring_widget title=”Climate Scoreboard” wid=”4b0afdf054484c54″ pid=”4b15120637e3b433″ width=”450″ height=”399″ domain=”widgets.clearspring.com”] Today, UK’s Guardian news covered the Climate Interactive Scoreboard, including a quote from our very own, Andrew Jones! Check out the excerpt below and read the full article here. “We’ve made progress but we’re clearly not headed where we need to be,” said Andrew Jones, co-director of […]
“Adding Up” Pledges Gets Official in UNFCCC!
A working group of the UNFCCC officially requested the sort of “Adding Up” of mitigation pledges that we do with C-ROADS and the Climate Scoreboard! Here’s the accepted text: The AWG-KP requested the secretariat to prepare for consideration by the AWG-KP at its twelfth session: (a) A paper compiling pledges for emission reductions and related assumptions […]
Climate Scoreboard Takes Flight
On the trip home from the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, Germany I was pleasantly surprised to see a fairly accurate representation of the Climate Scoreboard in the pages of Delta’s onboard magazine, Delta Sky. With the scoreboard having received more than 700,000 views since its release just before the Copenhagen Climate Summit we already knew […]
Summing Up Emissions Reduction Pledges: The State of the Art
Judging from the well-attended side-event on the first day of last week’s UNFCCC session there appears to be growing momentum to assess the question: is it adding up? Is the collective benefit of the pledges enough to deliver our goals for protecting the climate? Panelists representing five groups of analysts and modelers (including Climate Interactive) […]
Breaking News in Bonn: Parties Ask for Adding up of Mitigation Pledges
Writing from the UN climate negotiations in Bonn Germany, where the AOSIS island nations and EU recently proposed a formal “adding up” of the mitigation pledges to the UNFCCC. A recent text in the AWG-KP group included, “The AWG-KP requested the secretariat… prepare an analysis of the pledges for emissions reduction provided by Annex 1 […]
Live-Blogging the Bonn Climate Talks
Greetings from the UN Climate Talks in Bonn Germany! Dr. Beth Sawin and I from Sustainability Institute are helping move the climate negotiations forward with C-ROADS and the Climate Scoreboard. First person we ran into was Christiana Figueres, our dear friend and informal C-ROADS ambassador who is a top candidate for the chair of the […]
Climate Interactive and C-ROADS Heads to Bonn for the UNFCCC Meeting
Two members of our team out of Sustainability Institute, Dr. Beth Sawin and Andrew Jones, are heading this week to the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, Germany to use C-ROADS to help the global “pledge tracking” effort. We’ll be presenting at a UN side event along with our colleagues at Project Catalyst, WRI, Ecofys, Climate Analytics, […]