We are excited to release a new version of our award-winning simulator C-ROADS that is easier than ever to use. The new version, C-ROADS World Climate, has been designed with everyday users in mind so that more people have access to climate modeling insights. Available on Mac and Windows, and in French or English, C-ROADS World Climate […]
Developed World Strikes a Climate Deal with Developing World (in a sim at least)
For the first time in our ~20 runnings of the simulation-based “Mock-UN” role-playing exercise, The Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World Climate), the delegates from the developed world moved first in striking a global deal on climate. (For more on the sim behind the exercise and why the heck we ask people in nice clothes to […]
C-ROADS Used By US Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change to Show “Additional Actions” Needed
C-ROADS continues to be used to communicate the the need for additional measures to address climate change, beyond those already being considered by governments around the world. The latest evidence of this comes from the webcast of the April 1 plenary session of AWG-LCA (in Bonn), where US Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan […]
Building Confidence in C-ROADS
How does one build confidence in a system dynamics simulation like C-ROADS? Above you can see results from one important test that Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems did. Here’s what he did: From the published papers and online data, we made a graph of the “CO2 in the atmosphere” results from historical data and from […]
The Shape of Things to Come
Modeling math and equation goddess Lori Siegel recently sent along the latest version of C-ROADS (formerly called Pangaea) — the latest evolution of it since our partners at the Forum for Active Philanthropy stepped up to prep the sim to match the UN climate negotiation process more closely. This is the shape of things to […]