By Drew Jones, Beth Sawin, and Stephanie McCauley What has our impact been? Eight people, dozens of partners, five years, and two simulation models — what does it add up to? Here’s our informal assessment of how much of a contribution we’ve made to the global effort to curb climate change Together with our partners, […]
Trevor Houser Uses C-ROADS to Conclude “2 Degrees C is Still Within Reach”
Trevor Houser, our colleague formerly of the U.S. State Department, used C-ROADS to find hope in the Copenhagen Accord. He wrote: “Either way, if countries follow through on their pledges and follow on with more aggressive action, keeping global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius is still within reach.” Note — by our calculations, global […]
One Month After the Copenhagen Accord, Emissions Reductions Consistent With 2° Target Have Not Materialized
[clearspring_widget title=”Climate Scoreboard” wid=”4b0afdf054484c54″ pid=”4b15120637e3b433″ width=”450″ height=”399″ domain=”widgets.clearspring.com”] With January 31st as the ‘soft’ deadline for countries to submit to the UNFCCC their proposals for greenhouse gas emissions reductions under the Copenhagen Accord we’ve been hearing the question from colleagues and the press: do these submissions bring the world any closer to the goal of […]
Planet 100 News Covers the Climate Scoreboard in Quick Video
19 December 12:30am: Draft Copenhagen Accord Too Thin to Analyze
Copenhagen — As of 12:30 am on 19 December, the latest draft text for the Copenhagen Accord has too few quantifiable targets for our team to adequately analyze it. We look forward to using C-ROADS to calculating the long term impacts of the Accord as soon as possible. Note that, as we explain here, the […]
As Heads of State Talk Here in Copenhagen, We’ve Made Progress and Have Further To Go
[clearspring_widget title=”Climate Scoreboard” wid=”4b0afdf054484c54″ pid=”4b15120637e3b433″ width=”450″ height=”399″ domain=”widgets.clearspring.com”] Today, as the Heads of State gather here at the Copenhagen Conference, our calculations show that current confirmed proposals are not yet ambitious enough to limit temperature increase to 1.5-2°C (2.7-3.6°F) over pre-industrial temperatures. As shown above in the Climate Scoreboard, we estimate a temperature increase of 3.9°C (7.0°F) […]
Breaking News from Copenhagen: National Emissions Reductions Proposals Currently Fall Short of the Targets Defined in the Draft Text from the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action
Writing from the Bella Center in Copenhagen, our Climate Interactive team is sharing analysis of Day 5 Draft Texts in COP15. With less than a week to go, significant differences remain between the aggregate emissions reductions from current national proposals and the mitigation targets released yesterday in a draft text at the UNFCCC climate talks […]
Climate Interactive Presents C-ROADS and Scoreboard in Copenhagen
On Wednesday, here at COP15 in Copenhagen, the Climate Interactive team and partners presented the C-ROADS simulation and the Climate Scoreboard at the Bellona Room in the Bella Center to demonstrate our tools to support the negotiations. Watch a video of the presentation here.
OneClimate.net Interviews Dr. Elizabeth Sawin in Copenhagen at COP15
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The Climate Scoreboard Reports the Global Deal in Copenhagen
Below is a video of a presentation Dr. Elizabeth Sawin gave introducing the Climate Scoreboard in Copenhagen on the second day of the UN negotiations. You can see the full Scoreboard here. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.4139821&w=425&h=350&fv=clip_id%3D8041961%26server%3Dvimeo.com%26autoplay%3D0%26fullscreen%3D1%26md5%3D0%26show_portrait%3D0%26show_title%3D0%26show_byline%3D0%26context%3Duser%3A2239247%26context_id%3D%26force_embed%3D0%26multimoog%3D%26color%3D00ADEF%26force_info%3Dundefined]