En-ROADS Have you ever thought about what you would do to tackle climate change if you ruled the world? Would you subsidize renewable energy? Add a carbon tax? Finance research and development in new technology? Now you can test your theories to find what really works to combat global warming. Climate Interactive’s long-awaited climate and energy policy and investment […]
World Climate in Morelia, Mexico – We need to act and act now!
Guest post by Miguel Angel Salinas Melgoza, a facilitator of the World Climate Exercise. Seventeen undergraduate students learned valuable lessons through engaging in the World Climate simulation at the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores-UNAM, Morelia, Mexico. World Climate is Climate Interactive’s role-playing exercise of the UN climate change negotiations. The more the students delved into the role-playing […]
One Professor’s Enthusiasm for Interactive Classes Ripples Outwards
After a colleague led a training in using Climate Interactive’s role playing exercises, Professor Michele Putko ran with the idea and is now teaching her college engineering students to run the workshops themselves for high school audiences. Michele’s undergraduates have already reached 100 high school students at 3 different schools. This is tapping into a powerful […]
Hewlett Foundation Awards Climate Interactive Major Grant To Launch User-Friendly Climate and Energy Model
The Hewlett Foundation has awarded Climate Interactive a $200,000 grant to support the research, development, and public release of the simulation En-ROADS. The tool, which builds on the award-winning C-ROADS model, enables people to create and test long-term scenarios for success on climate through a variety of policy and investment levers. With En-ROADS, anyone can explore the […]
Dr. Florian Kapmeier and World Climate Inspire German Students
A group of German college students learned that early action is needed in the fight against global climate change when Professor Dr. Florian Kapmeier led them in the World Climate exercise. The event was highlighted in Reutlinger General-Anzeiger, the local newspaper where the students attend college. The students, who attend Reutlingen University’s ESB Business School in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, dived […]
World Energy at NCSE Energy & Climate Conference
Climate Interactive’s World Energy Exercise enables participants to take on the role of leaders from key economic and energy sectors and negotiate a climate and energy deal. Later this month, participants at the National Council for Science and the Environment’s (NCSE) 15th National Conference and Global Forum on Science Policy and the Environment: Energy and Climate Change will have an opportunity to design their own […]
World Energy Exercise: Putting You in Control of Our Energy Future
Climate Interactive has developed the World Energy Exercise to provide a simulation-based experience to help deepen participants’ understanding of potential policy and investment scenarios to address our global energy challenges. Recently, Drew Jones led a version of World Energy for 100 energy graduate students at Stanford University. More on the event is here. The video […]
“World Climate” — Our Role-Playing Simulation-Based Policy Exercise is Spreading
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Top Eleven Extensions of the C-ROADS Climate Simulation
Since 2006, Sustainability Institute’s climate efforts — Climate Interactive and Our Climate Ourselves – operating along side our work with international policymakers, has achieved significant successes translating simulation-based insights in eleven different forms. 1. Embeddable Widget. The C-ROADS-based Climate Scoreboard spread virally through the climate policy world during the Copenhagen Conference and was embedded in […]
World’s Countries Ratify Global Climate Deal! in a Dartmouth simulation at least…
Professor David Peart and Dr. Lori Siegel led a powerful learning experience for Dartmouth College students using the C-ROADS simulator as part of the Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World Climate) The College created an engaging video on the experience — check it out above. And their press release is here. Sustainability issues and our team’s […]