81% of participants in a role play simulation increased motivation to combat climate change, regardless of political orientation Research published in PLOS ONE finds that 81% of participants in the World Climate Simulation, a role-playing game of the UN climate talks, showed increased motivation to combat climate change, even among Americans who are free market […]
Find Climate Interactive at COP23
The Climate Interactive team is headed to Bonn for the COP23 UN climate talks. Present at the COP will be co-director Andrew Jones, MIT Professor John Sterman, Ellie Johnston, Travis Franck, and several of our World Climate Ambassadors, including Reutlingen Unviersity’s Florian Kapmeier, ITBA’s Eduardo Fracassi, and others. If you are attending, we would love […]
Trump & the Paris Agreement: Climate Interactive in the News
Media outlets are speculating on what might become of US climate policies in the face of Trump and have called on us to run the numbers on different scenarios. The latest burst of stories has surrounded news that senior Trump officials are going to hold a meeting to settle the administration’s position on the Paris Agreement. There appears […]
World Climate Simulation at a Business University in Kenya
By Joyce Muthoni Strathmore University, 28 October 2016 – Over 35 Strathmore University students gathered at the Strathmore Business School for the World Climate Simulation organized by the Strathmore Center for Sustainability Leadership and the Strathmore University Student Council in partnership with Climate Interactive. The event aimed at increasing interest in and mobilizing youth […]
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 […]
World Climate Succeeds at COP 22
At eight events, hundreds of people from across the world have had a chance to experience how it feels like to negotiate an ambitious global climate deal using Climate Interactive’s rigorous tools, C-ROADS and World Climate. This is how it happened. By engaging the business community, Prof. John Sterman was able to challenge the business […]
Paris and the Art of the Possible
Blog post by John Sterman, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, April 25, 2016. On Friday, April 22, 175 countries signed the historic Paris Climate Agreement. Problem solved, right? Make no mistake—the Paris agreement is historic. We all know that politics is the art of the possible. Getting nearly 200 nations to agree on […]
The Paris Climate Talks: Deliverance or Disappointment?
At a recent forum at MIT, Professor John Sterman outlined the significance of the Paris climate agreement, along with the challenges that lie ahead. Sterman asks: “Does [the Paris Agreement] deliver us from climate catastrophe or is it another diplomatic disappointment? Is it a triumph or a travesty? To that question, I’m going to answer […]
With Improved Pledges Every Five Years, Paris Agreement Could Limit Warming Below 2°C
By Andrew Jones, John Sterman, Ellie Johnston, and Lori Siegel The Paris Agreement represents significant progress. One major success is the commitment to review national pledges every five years, starting in 2018. If nations offer deeper, earlier emissions cuts at that time and continue progress, projected warming could be limited to 2°C (3.6°F), according to […]
Press Release: Offers for Paris Climate Talks Would Reduce Warming by 1°C
For Immediate Release – Contacts: Paige Knappenberger, pknappenberger@climatenexus.org, (602) 549 0344 and Jennifer Haskell, jhaskell@climateinteractive.org, (703) 231-1835 Offers for Paris Climate Talks Would Reduce Warming by 1°C Warming could be reduced from 4.5˚C to 3.5˚C under INDCs submitted to date The current national offers of climate action submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on […]