Elizabeth Sawin, Co-Director of Climate Interactive recently delivered a keynote speech at the Heroes & Leaders celebration of mentors, focusing on what she learned about mentoring from her mentor ...
Beth Sawin Illuminates the Emissions Gap For U.S. Media
Climate Interactive Co-Director Beth Sawin is one of the co-authors of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report, which is getting widespread coverage, as eyes focus on this year's climate negotiations hosted by ...
Our Three Big Impacts
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 ...
China-U.S. Collaboration Launches Powerful New Simulation
For over two years Climate Interactive has been working with Tsinghua University in China to create a learning tool to model the climate goals of Chinese provinces. Because of our work with Tsinghua, ...
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 ...
Transparent, Real-Time Analysis Works
Climate Interactive is a small team with big goals. One of our founding goals was to offer rapid turnaround analysis of the most important climate and energy issues, and to make that analysis ...
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 ...
To Avoid Expensive and Disruptive Rates of Emissions Reduction In Coming Decades Parties Must Increase the Ambition of 2020 Pledges Today
To see a reposting on Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog, click here. And a corroborating report by ClimateWorks Foundation here plus another by Climate Analytics here. Postponing commitment to ...
Beth Sawin On Hurricane Irene from Vermont Bioneers: The Big Four Lessons
At the end of August, Vermont was hit by catastrophic flooding as result of Hurricane Irene, which dumped six inches of rain on already saturated hillsides around the state. On Saturday, I (Beth ...
Tropical Storm Irene Hits Close to Home
Climate Interactive Co-Director Beth Sawin (who is coping with life in newly flooded Vermont – she and family are okay BTW) posted a timely perspective on this week’s Irene disaster on Romm’s Climate ...
Mexican Environment Minister Elvira – “Emissions Gap Report Will Be One of the Most Influential Documents Since AR4”
At a press conference at the UNFCCC climate talks in Mexico today UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner formally presented the Emissions Gap Report to the government of Mexico, and panelists including ...
C-ROADS In Cancun COP16 — China, Emissions Gap Report, and Empowering the World
Second week in the COP16 UN negotiations in China showing good possibilities for climate progress for Climate Interactive and the world. The photo here is our team of Drew Jones, Beth Sawin, and ...