By: Barış Can Sever Climate Simulation Program (CSP), 22-26 September – Ankara In late September the World Climate Simulation Program (a model UNFCCC/COP), which has been regularly organized in various parts of the world, was conducted by the Change for Climate Project (C4C) under the leadership of Oğuz Tosun (the World Climate Ambassador of Turkey) with […]
World Climate Week Recap: Strong Mobilization Across the Globe
From 9-16th October 2016, Climate Interactive and partners held the World Climate Week. The idea was to foster discussions around climate change one month before COP22 while engaging people with the World Climate Simulation of the UN climate talks. With 36 simulation events worldwide and almost 2000 participants, World Climate Week was a huge success. At Climate Interactive, we […]
Using the World Climate Simulation in a Virtual Classroom
Guest post by Dr. Marsha Willard, faculty of MBA in Sustainable Systems, Pinchot University, Seattle, WA. In spite of the limitations of a virtual classroom, Dr. Willard was able to use the World Climate Simulation to create a highly interactive mock-UN climate negotiation for her students. Learn more about how she set this up: Last semester Juliette RooneyVarga, […]
Global Effort to Spread Climate Negotiation Simulations Takes Off
As the U.N. climate negotiations steadily tick toward their deadline of releasing a new agreement in 2015, a global effort led by young people to have their voices heard and taken seriously in the negotiations is spreading worldwide. The initiative, COP in MyCity, is using Climate Interactive’s World Climate Exercise as the basis of their […]