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 …
Climate Interactive and the Dalai Lama: “Shouting, Shouting”
Climate Interactive and the Dalai Lama: “Shouting, Shouting". His Holiness the Dalai Lama recently participated in a dialogue at MIT on the challenge of responding to climate change. In this …
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, …
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 …
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 …
C-ROADS — The Climate Rapid Overview and Decision-support Simulator
For information, background materials, and other info on C-ROADS, visit our project website on the simulator. Our team from Sustainability Institute, Ventana Systems, and MIT in the U.S. has …
Teaching in Germany from My Desk in the States
Taught climate dynamics in Germany using C-ROADS (formerly called Pangaea) today from my desk in North Carolina, USA. Using GoToMeeting to send the image of the model on my computer screen over to …
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 …
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" …
South and Latin American Leaders Engage in Climate Policy Exercise
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 …
A Story of Hope and Possibility for the Climate
We get to invest in the possibility that human society does all it can to address climate change. We can do it! That is the core message of the presentation -- "Simulating Climate Hope" -- that …
Unveiling C-ROADS “Common Platform” and “Scoreboard” in Barcelona UNFCCC Meeting
Coming to the UNFCCC meeting in Barcelona next week? Please come to two events next Tuesday on the policymaker-oriented simulator, C-ROADS: 1) Introducing C-ROADS-CP: A Common Platform …