Today's guest blogger is our longtime friend and colleague, the system dynamics modeler and facilitator Chris Soderquist of Pontifex Consulting. On July 30, I delivered a systems thinking session at …
Talking Climate at Tällberg Forum
As our Climate Policy Exercise makes its way around the world, we have another guest blogger, long time colleague and partner Alan AtKisson, who details the latest event at the Tällberg Forum on his …
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 …
Role-Playing a Path to Climate Stabilization
It was a big week for the Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World Climate), the role-playing mock-UN policy exercise created here at Sustainability Institute and by John Sterman at MIT where people …
The Copenhagen Climate Exercise
Most people get lost when they just see the results of models. But people really understand when, as I saw in this Copenhagen Climate Exercise, they experience the results. -- Dr. Bob Corell, Global …