By Ellie Johnston, Andrew Jones, Lori Siegel, and John Sterman President Trump is about to decide whether to withdraw from the historic Paris climate agreement or even take the US out of the UN climate negotiation process (UNFCCC). The implications of this decision will be momentous for the US and for the world. To explore […]
A World Climate Simulation in Pictures
Our recently appointed World Climate Ambassador, Dr. Diana Pritchard, facilitated an exceptional World Climate Simulation involving participants from three generations and from diverse cultural settings that are studying, living and working in Bedfordshire, UK. Each delegation included at least one student, one academic and one representative of a community organisation. Everyone, irrespective of academic level […]
What Slashing Climate Rules Means For the U.S. Pledge to Paris
President Trump has issued an executive order to begin repealing the Clean Power Plan and other Obama-era climate policies. So what are the impacts on the U.S. pledge to the Paris climate agreement? See the story in the New York Times for more. The New York Times used our data and analysis to show the enormous effect in the […]
World Climate Organized to Pilot Learning about Climate and International Debates
Written by Dr. Diana Pritchard, University of Bedfordshire, England Climate change, one of the biggest challenges facing our societies, impacts increasingly on our communities locally and across the world. While the UK government together with other nations work on crucial political agreements to mitigate against the worst effects and finance adaptation efforts, there is a need […]
Tips for Running the World Climate Simulation for Large Groups
What do you do when you have more than 60 participants who want to play World Climate? I’ve run the game with 150 adults at a USAID conference, 415 high-school students in their gym, and 450 environment and development professionals at a meeting in Sweden. Here are my tips. Just do it. World Climate works well […]
The New York Times Employs Climate Interactive Data to Chart Out “How Trump Can Influence Climate Change”
Jasmine Lee and Adam Pearce of The New York Times created a digital story, “How Trump Can Influence Climate Change,” exploring what actions were intended to deliver upon the Paris pledge of the U.S., what actions could be lost, and where the U.S. fits globally. We provide the following notes on the various data sources behind the […]
Washington Post Uses Our Thought Experiments to Show What Climate Success Will Take
Chris Mooney of the Washington Post used Climate Interactive scenarios created in the C-ROADS simulator in his article, “This is what it would take for Trump to truly damage the planet’s climate.” The analysis shows that, to achieve Paris temperature limits, climate leaders will need to advocate for both the U.S. reducing its own emissions and […]
New Partnership with Moroccan University to Elevate Climate Awareness
Climate Interactive has launched a new effort to expand climate change awareness across Africa in partnership with the new University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) in Morocco. This new partnership includes two specific projects: 1. The World Climate Project Africa The World Climate Project Africa has been designed in partnership with UM6P and […]
World Climate in Morelia, Mexico – We need to act and act now!
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 […]
Climate Interactive Broadcasts Tough Realities and High Aspirations Via Paris COP 21 Media
In Paris, Climate Interactive helped the media face difficult realities of climate and energy science and also build high hopes for progress. CI used our system dynamics models, C-ROADS and En-ROADS, to analyze the climate proposals (mainly run by Senior Modeler Lori Siegel), run interactive workshops, and try to keep the policymakers and negotiators honest […]