Climate Interactive Co-Director Andrew (Drew) Jones shared his top ten reasons to be hopeful for the climate in this dynamic presentation for the Sierra Club (16 minutes). It includes a demo of the team’s free, open-source simulator, C-ROADS.
Upper West Region of Ghana experiences World Climate Simulation
My fourth World Climate Simulation event was at the University for Development Studies, Wa campus in Ghana held on the October 14, 2016 during the World Climate week. The simulation was attended by students from the Department of Environmental Management Studies, graduate students from the Faculty for Integrated Development Studies, and representatives from the Climate Change […]
Tips for Running World Climate for Youth
Over the past ten years, I have run World Climate many times for young people aged 10 – 17, with groups from 20 – 120. Here are my tips, which you can also find the Additional Materials section our our website: Just do it. World Climate works so well with this age group – young […]
Power to change ourselves, not the CLIMATE
By Sarp Celebi, Ankara, Turkey Hi all who care for our climate! I am writing this post from Ankara, the capital of Turkey and the heart of Anatolia. Many of you, living in different parts of our delicate world, have seen a serious increase in climate anomalies due to climate change. Here in Ankara, it […]
Reflections from World Climate Facilitators and Participants
World Climate offers an opportunity to learn by experience. We share some quotes we have received from World Climate facilitators and participants around the world of what they have been able to learn, and how they have been inspired to take action on climate change. Narayan Solanke, facilitated a World Climate Simulation with his students in September, […]
World Climate in Ghana with North and South Participants
My second World Climate Simulation at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, on the 16th September 2016, brought together exceptional environmental science students and researchers from the University of Cape Coast and visiting students from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark who were under Kultierstudier programme in the university. This allowed us to see how participants from the […]
‘I too can negotiate’, Nigerian environmentalist experiences World Climate
By Benita Siloko, Nigeria Environmental Society Going to UN conferences to contribute my own quota to climate change has been a dream dear to my heart. I have always fantasized about learning the operations of the UNFCCC as well as learning how to negotiate a global climate agreement. Who knew my dream would come to reality one day? […]
Joshua Amponsem from Ghana becomes a World Climate Ambassador
Joshua Amponsem found Climate Interactive’s tools essential in his work as a young environmental activist in Ghana. In the last three months, he has been mobilizing young people, social entrepreneurs, and universities across Ghana to experience World Climate simulations, and hence, inspiring them to take climate action. We asked Joshua how World Climate simulations were relevant […]
World Climate Delivers Deep Learning
For years, we’ve had a hunch that the World Climate Exercise delivers deep learning about climate change and often motivates participants to action. Now, thanks to support from the US National Science Foundation, we have data that show just how effective this experiential learning tool is. Here are three key findings from our research conducted […]
Global Effort to Spread Climate Negotiation Simulations Takes Off
As the U.N. climate negotiations steadily tick toward their deadline of releasing a new agreement in 2015, a global effort led by young people to have their voices heard and taken seriously in the negotiations is spreading worldwide. The initiative, COP in MyCity, is using Climate Interactive’s World Climate Exercise as the basis of their […]