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 […]
Cultivate Climate Leadership: Lead a Mock-UN Game
Committed leaders are using the World Climate game to inform and inspire climate action. Use our online and in-person trainings this summer to have fun and bring a powerful experience to your class, friends, and community around climate change. This December, world leaders will gather in Paris for a major UN climate summit. Will they get the […]
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 […]
Eduardo Pedro Fracassi: Climate Student to Climate Star
In three years, Professor Eduardo Pedro Fracassi has journeyed from being inactive on climate change progress to making a major impact with Climate Interactive’s World Climate Exercise. He’s gone from Climate Student to Climate Star. After seeing a presentation of Climate Interactive’s work, Eduardo co-facilitated with fellow professor Fabian Szulanski 17 World Climate Exercise workshops, proposed a Climate Engineering course at the Buenos […]
Starting a Global Climate Movement for Young People with Millennial Leader Juliette Decq
Few people can go to the UN climate change summit, so Juliette brings the UN summit to the people. Twenty-two-year-old Juliette Decq is the founder and head of COP in MyCity, a project of CliMates. The organization is a youth-led project that aims to bridge the gap between climate negotiations and the mainstream public by fostering education and action about climate change locally and […]
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” Mock-UN Exercise Energizes Youth
Youngest “World Climate” players yet! Climate Interactive’s Drew Jones led a class of eleven seventh graders from Hanger Hall School for Girls through the “Mock-UN” policy exercise where three teams represent country groups and negotiate a global climate deal. They learned the biogeochemical carbon system through the “Bathtub” analogy and improved their understanding of climate […]
Dickinson College COP17 delegation World Climate experiences
Nine weeks away from their attendance at the COP 17 Climate Change Negotiations in Durban, South Africa, students of Dickinson College’s delegation joined with classmates to participate in Climate Interactive’s World Climate Exercise. These eleven undergraduates are taking four courses this semester to provide them an interdisciplinary study of how we can address climate change. […]