By Ellie Johnston, Andrew Jones, Lori Siegel, and John Sterman President Trump is about to decide whether to withdraw from the historic Paris climate agreement or even take the US out of the UN climate negotiation process (UNFCCC). The implications of this decision will be momentous for the US and for the world. To explore […]
What Slashing Climate Rules Means For the U.S. Pledge to Paris
President Trump has issued an executive order to begin repealing the Clean Power Plan and other Obama-era climate policies. So what are the impacts on the U.S. pledge to the Paris climate agreement? See the story in the New York Times for more. The New York Times used our data and analysis to show the enormous effect in the […]
The New York Times Employs Climate Interactive Data to Chart Out “How Trump Can Influence Climate Change”
Jasmine Lee and Adam Pearce of The New York Times created a digital story, “How Trump Can Influence Climate Change,” exploring what actions were intended to deliver upon the Paris pledge of the U.S., what actions could be lost, and where the U.S. fits globally. We provide the following notes on the various data sources behind the […]
Media Profiles Climate Interactive: Building Momentum around Climate Action
The Citizen-Times (US) interviewed Ellie Johnston, Beth Sawin, and Drew Jones of Climate Interactive as well as our partner Tom Fiddaman and took photos of the role-playing World Climate game. Check out their article “Climate change models inform negotiators, engage regular folks” to learn more about how Climate Interactive got its start and what we do. Read […]
The Kigali Deal on HFCs Is Important but Won’t Save us Another Half a Degree
The Kigali Amendment on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) is excellent news for the climate. It tackles a powerful greenhouse gas, binds parties to take action with more teeth than the Paris Agreement, and demonstrates again our international capacity to cooperate. This Amendment looks to be the largest single action that will deliver on the pledges in the […]
Factsheet — U.S. and China Ratification of the U.N. Paris Agreement by the Numbers
Contact: Andrew Jones, Climate Interactive, apjones@climateinteractive.org, John Sterman, MIT Sloan, jsterman@mit.edu, Ellie Johnston, Climate Interactive, ejohnston@climateinteractive.org, United States and China Ratification of Paris Agreement Accounts for Half of Agreement’s Climate Impact Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan have provided the following calculations and data from their C-ROADS simulation and other sources in light of the […]
Climate Interactive Broadcasts Tough Realities and High Aspirations Via Paris COP 21 Media
In Paris, Climate Interactive helped the media face difficult realities of climate and energy science and also build high hopes for progress. CI used our system dynamics models, C-ROADS and En-ROADS, to analyze the climate proposals (mainly run by Senior Modeler Lori Siegel), run interactive workshops, and try to keep the policymakers and negotiators honest […]
Climate Interactive in Lima at COP 20
Climate Interactive is attending the UNFCCC’s twentieth Conference of the Parties (COP 20) in Lima, Peru. We look forward to meeting as many members of the Climate Interactive community as possible. If you’re in Lima, please look for team members Ellie Johnston, Travis Franck, and Drew Jones. They will be sharing our En-ROADS, C-ROADS, and […]
Why the Latest Energy Breakthrough Won’t Help the Climate Much
Cross-posted from Grist.org We all just love a story where the suspense builds and builds, the whole tale teeters on the brink of disaster — but then, just in time, the hero or heroine saves the day. And it’s no different with climate change. As we watch this slow-motion catastrophe unfurl, we hold out […]
Lessons from Rio+20 and some words from Buckminster Fuller
I covered a bit about what Climate Interactive was up to and what we were seeing while in Rio a couple weeks ago. Below are my personal reflections coming out of Rio, which went up earlier this week on the environmental blog Grist. Were you at Rio+20 or did you watch it from afar? Let […]