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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
“World Climate” — Our Role-Playing Simulation-Based Policy Exercise is Spreading
More people around the world are getting to experience World Climate: A Computer-Simulation-Based Role-Playing Exercise! Here are a couple of recent examples. Mike Goodman ran World Climate as part ...
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 ...
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 ...
Innovative Partnership Launches Freeware Online Climate Simulation
A new partnership of companies and NGOs committed to open source climate simulations has launched a freeware climate decision support tool. Check it out here -- click on the big "C-Learn" ...
Running “Mock-UN” Climate Negotiations in Croatia from a Desk in the USA
As I write, 40 Croatian electrical utility executives and youth leaders are playing the roles of global UN delegates and proposing emissions targets to stabilize the climate. They are in Croatia, ...
Developed World Strikes a Climate Deal with Developing World (in a sim at least)
For the first time in our ~20 runnings of the simulation-based "Mock-UN" role-playing exercise, The Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World Climate), the delegates from the developed world moved first ...