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 Mexican Environment Minister Juan Rafael Elvira, UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Chris Huhne, and UN Ambassador from Grenada, Dessima Williams, spoke […]
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 Travis Franck with Zhou Li (second from left) of Tsinghua University. We’re planning US-China-created workshops in China for provincial leaders who are […]
Emissions Gap Exists, We Can Close It, says Dr. Elizabeth Sawin and 32 other Scientists
What’s the latest on the sufficiency of country mitigation pledges to the UN? Now Dr. Beth Sawin of Climate Interactive and 32 other top global scientists have spoken in the UNEP “Emissions Gap Report”. Watch yesterday’s webinar briefing on the work below: The key conclusions of the study are: There is a gap between where […]
UNEP Emissions Gap Report Released Today
Today, in events in Helsinki, London, Washington D. C., and Nairobi, the United Nations Environment Program is releasing its Emissions Gap Report which is now available on the both the UNEP webpage and the Climate Interactive website. The report was convened in conjunction with the European Climate Foundation and the National Institute of Ecology-SEMARNAT, Mexico, […]
From Uplifting to Sobering: Perspectives From Dr. Beth Sawin on the UNFCCC session in Bonn
A few quick thoughts and reactions as I prepare to leave Bonn tomorrow after a few days working with a group of scientists assessing the ’emissions gap’ and after spending some time at the site of the negotiations. Most uplifting: a side event today by the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands on Low Emissions […]
Climate Simulation Drives International Collaboration
US-China collaboration on climate systems modeling at the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn today. Prof. Zhao Xiusheng of Tsinghua University, Andrew Jones of Climate Interactive, Dr. Beth Sawin of Climate Interactive, Dr. Jiang Kejun of Energy Research Institute (China). To the left, working together to see what it would take to create a 2 degree future […]
Live from Bonn: US-China Collaboration on Climate Analysis
Here in Bonn, Germany, at the UN climate conference, Dr. Elizabeth Sawin of Climate Interactive and Dr. Zhao Xiusheng of Tsinghua University collaborate on quantifying energy and climate futures. Here they are running experiments in the C-ROADS simulation.
C-ROADS Team Heads to Bonn UNFCCC
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin and Andrew Jones of Climate Interactive are bringing real-time C-ROADS climate analysis to the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, Germany this week. We’ll meet with the other scientists adding up the state of the global climate deal (June 2), present with 350.org at a side event (June 4), and share C-ROADS with climate […]
“Climate Pledge Adders” Collaborate in Bonn
Many of the scientists and analysts who are working together to add up climate change mitigation pledges to determine their sufficiency to address climate change met to collaborate at the recent UNFCCC meeting in Bonn. Scroll down to other blog posts to hear about substantive results from this meeting hosted by the European Climate Foundation. […]
The Calculators of the Global Climate Deal Unite in Bonn
At the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn Germany, the climate modelers who are calculating the effectiveness of mitigation pledges have united to collaborate towards strengthening the global climate deal. At a side event organized by the European Climate Foundation (that’s Dr. Beth Sawin of Sustainability Institute’s Climate Interactive program speaking at it next to Murray Ward […]