VICE News Tonight ran a piece on HBO which featured MIT Sloan Professor John Sterman leading the World Climate roleplay game for executive MBA students. Two of our simulation models—C-ROADS and En-ROADS—are used to guide students on the impacts of their climate policy negotiations. The game, called the World Climate Simulation, puts participants into the […]
Is the Key to Sparking Climate Action a Game? New Research Suggests It Is, Even Across the Political Divide
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 […]
World Climate Simulation Grows in 2017
This year hundreds of World Climate Simulation events took place around the world, which enabled the UN climate negotiation role playing exercise to reach thousands more people. Facilitators organized simulation events in new countries including: Algeria, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Hungary, Liberia, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia. World Climate Simulation by the numbers since 2015: 762 events 74 countries 35,000+ participants 218 events took place […]
Video: Why Run the World Climate Simulation
At COP23 the Climate Interactive team was excited to spend time with many people who are facilitating the World Climate Simulation worldwide. On several occasions we bumped into people who talked about how transformative they find the World Climate Simulation to be with the audiences they work with. We caught a few of them on […]
It’s World Climate Week; It’s Your Turn to Negotiate!
This week (October 9-16), twelve countries will host 30 World Climate Simulations for World Climate Week. These simulations will enable participants to experience what it takes to negotiate a global climate deal to keep warming well below 2 degrees Celsius. The diversity of host institutions include universities, grassroots non-governmental organizations, and research institutions, among others. The feedback from our […]
Download the new C-ROADS World Climate Simulator
We are excited to release a new version of our award-winning simulator C-ROADS that is easier than ever to use. The new version, C-ROADS World Climate, has been designed with everyday users in mind so that more people have access to climate modeling insights. Available on Mac and Windows, and in French or English, C-ROADS World Climate […]
Join us for World Climate Week: October 9-16
From 9 to 16 October, the World Climate Week, we are encouraging people from around the world to organize World Climate Simulations to build awareness about climate action. Will you host a simulation and inspire a movement of climate leaders? World Climate, Climate Interactive’s simulation of the UN Climate talks, is becoming a critical tool for improving understanding […]
World Climate Simulation Sparks a Climate Solution Win
World Climate Ambassador, Eduardo Fracassi, and his team are winners of a MIT Climate Colab contest! Here’s their story, which began with the World Climate Simulation: In 2012, Fabian Szulanski, at that time director of ITBA’s System Dynamics Center, and I heard a keynote presentation by Professor Sterman of MIT and Climate Interactive. There Prof. […]