We hope to see many of you in Copenhagen! If you will be in Copenhagen, look for members of our extended team using C-ROADS and sharing the Climate Scoreboard: Drew Jones (SI), Beth Sawin (SI), John Sterman (MIT), Lori Siegel (SI), Tom Fiddaman (Ventana Systems), Bob Corell (CAI), and Travis Franck (Tufts). And please join […]
“Climate Geeks Unite!” New Coverage of C-ROADS Heading to Copenhagen
The Mountain Express newspaper (Asheville, NC) covered our team’s upcoming journey to Copenhagen to use C-ROADS and the Climate Interactive Scoreboard to make a difference in the global climate deal. Writer Margaret Williams covered our work and the youth leader Ellie Johnston’s too. Copenhagen or bust by Margaret Williams Photo by Anne Fitten Glenn Climate geeks […]
Pershing in Barcelona: “We Use C-ROADS” And Now Others Can Too
The U.S. State Department is using our interactive climate simulator, C-ROADS. At the “NGO Briefing” of the UNFCCC meeting in Barcelona last week, someone asked the U.S. negotiator Jonathan Pershing, “What analytical tools do you use to make your climate impact calculations?” Mr. Pershing answered: “We use a simulation called C-ROADS out of MIT, which […]
Unveiling C-ROADS “Common Platform” and “Scoreboard” in Barcelona UNFCCC Meeting
Coming to the UNFCCC meeting in Barcelona next week? Please come to two events next Tuesday on the policymaker-oriented simulator, C-ROADS: 1) Introducing C-ROADS-CP: A Common Platform Simulator 2) The Climate Interactive Scoreboard – Reporting the State of the Global Climate Deal with the C-ROADS Simulator.
What Are Country Proposals to the Global Climate Deal?
The Climate Interactive team has been combing the websites and public statements of various countries, in order to assess the state of the global deal to address climate change. The table here is the result of that research. Check it out here and see all the references here. More and more commitments every month, and […]
Simulating Climate Hope at TEDx Asheville
Big learning last night at the amazing TEDx Asheville: People who understand the urgency of climate action are HUNGRY for a scientifically grounded story of the path to a global climate deal. As part of the Climate Interactive team, I told that story last night using the C-ROADS simulator, and it felt like I was […]
Bonn – Are Developing Countries Asking For the Wrong Thing?
Today’s post comes from Climate Interactive partner and lead modeler on the C-ROADS simulation, Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems. It was originally posted on his excellent “MetaSD” blog. From the news: BONN, Germany (Reuters) – China, India and other developing nations joined forces on Wednesday to urge rich countries to make far deeper cuts in greenhouse […]
Only The Most Ambitious Emissions Reductions Under Discussion Within the UNFCCC Come Close To Achieving Climate Goals
The diplomats at this week’s UNFCCC meeting in Bonn will need to aim towards the most ambitious proposals offered so far within the UNFCCC process if they want a global agreement later this year that will stabilize CO2 levels in the range of 350-450 ppm. The figure to the left — the output of […]
Senator Kerry Shares C-ROADS Findings
On March 5th Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts referred extensively to our work in remarks at a forum sponsored by Hitachi and featuring panels organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Brookings Institution. As the level of interest in the conclusions Senator Kerry referred to grows we offer here information […]
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 […]