This post was originally published on MIT Sloan’s innovation@work Blog. On November 4, 2016, the historic Paris Agreement on climate change policy (#OurAccord) became international law. “Humanity will look back on November 4, 2016, as the day that countries of the world shut the door on inevitable climate disaster,” said UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa and Moroccan […]
Climate Interactive Quantifies Implications of Trump Presidency for the Climate
In several interviews with prominent media outlets, Climate Interactive’s Andrew Jones and MIT’s Prof. John Sterman elaborated the potential effect of president-elect Trump pulling out of the Paris climate agreement. As Andrew Jones said, “Pulling out of the Paris agreement matters not just in leadership, but also in a direct impact on the climate.” Based […]
World Climate Succeeds at COP 22
At eight events, hundreds of people from across the world have had a chance to experience how it feels like to negotiate an ambitious global climate deal using Climate Interactive’s rigorous tools, C-ROADS and World Climate. This is how it happened. By engaging the business community, Prof. John Sterman was able to challenge the business […]
John Sterman Addresses Ban Ki-Moon on the Need for Deeper Emissions Cuts
Dr. John Sterman of MIT Sloan and Climate Interactive had the honor of speaking to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon yesterday in New York on the occasion of the entry into force of the Paris Agreement. Dr. Sterman represented a group of scientific NGOs that have been critical to elevating climate science in the negotiations, to […]
Next steps for C-ROADS and climate change
This was originally posted on MIT Sloan’s Innovation@Work Blog. Earlier this spring, MIT Sloan Professor John Sterman presented an important and well-attended live webinar, The Dynamics of Climate Change–from the Political to the Personal. One of the highlights of the webinar was a live demonstration of C-ROADS (Climate Rapid Overview and Decision Support): a free, […]
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 […]
Prof. John Sterman Leads Us Through Climate Simulation Insights in this MIT Webinar
How can we respond to climate change? Can we build an economy powered by clean, renewable energy in time? Does the agreement forged at the recent Paris climate conference (COP21) deliver us from catastrophe, or is it another diplomatic disappointment? How can the science be made accessible to the policymakers, the media, and the public […]
Paris and the Art of the Possible
Blog post by John Sterman, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, April 25, 2016. On Friday, April 22, 175 countries signed the historic Paris Climate Agreement. Problem solved, right? Make no mistake—the Paris agreement is historic. We all know that politics is the art of the possible. Getting nearly 200 nations to agree on […]
The Paris Climate Talks: Deliverance or Disappointment?
At a recent forum at MIT, Professor John Sterman outlined the significance of the Paris climate agreement, along with the challenges that lie ahead. Sterman asks: “Does [the Paris Agreement] deliver us from climate catastrophe or is it another diplomatic disappointment? Is it a triumph or a travesty? To that question, I’m going to answer […]
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 […]