Co-authored by Cassandra Breeze Ceballos, Multisolving Program Coordinator at Climate Interactive and Curt Newton, En-ROADS Climate Ambassador and Director of MIT OpenCourseWare. …
New Op-Ed: COVID-19 recovery spending could catalyze transformative change, but time is running out
Written by Cassandra Breeze Ceballos and Dr. Elizabeth Sawin; published in full by The Hill …
New Op-Ed: How can a coronavirus response reduce inequity and protect the climate?
Reposted from Thomson Reuters Foundation Amid a triple crisis, a 'multisolving' response can mitigate the effects of the pandemic, inequity and climate change all at once Everywhere you look, …
Why We Can’t Ignore the Link Between COVID-19, Climate Change and Inequity
Written by Dr.Elizabeth Sawin, originally published by US News and World Report on April 1, 2020 Today we face three massive threats, and the only way to neutralize any one of them is to succeed …
Covid-19 Sucks. But It Could Teach Us How to Avoid the Worst Consequences of Climate Change.
Cross posted on Resilience.org with permission. A devastating problem crops up. Not any old problem, but one that grows exponentially. We can cope with this problem, to some extent, …
Coherence: A Plenary Reflection about Systems Thinking
Originally published on the Confluence Philanthropy website on March 17, 2020 by Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, re-posted with permission. Slides from the presentation can be found here. Coherence is …
Want to tackle climate change but don’t know where to start? There’s a game for that
Originally posted on the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative website on January 21, 2020 by Dr. Juliette N. Rooney-Varga, re-posted with permission. A new study published in Simulation and …
Gaming carbon dioxide removal with young climate leaders
Blog post by Bindu Bhandari, Climate Interactive, and Viktor Jósa, CliMates Original post found here What does it really take to stay well below 2°C global temperature rise as agreed in the …
Negotiating for the Future at SimPlanet
On the last day of MIT Orientation Week, I found myself in a room with about 50 other new MIT students participating in an interactive climate policy game called “SimPlanet.” Over the course of four …
Better Public Policy Through Systems Thinking: Visionary Leadership from Mayor Curtatone
The following essay was written by the Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts, Joseph Curtatone. Although Curtatone ties systems thinking to I-93 and childhood obesity in Somerville, the same long-term …
Climate Interactive and our simulations align with plea of UN Panel
“Measures should be taken to strengthen the interface between policymaking and science in order to facilitate informed political decision-making on sustainable development issues.” So reads one of …
Partner John Sterman in Powerful Video — Red State Goes Green
Check out the following post from Climate Interactive partner Dr. John Sterman of MIT's Sloan School. View a post here on Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog. Start with “Amber Waves of Green,” directed …