After a colleague led a training in using Climate Interactive’s role playing exercises, Professor Michele Putko ran with the idea and is now teaching her college engineering students to run the …
Simulation Efforts in Africa Endorsed by the COP 22 Secretariat
We are delighted to announce that our efforts to build African capacity on climate change modeling and decision tools have been endorsed by the COP 22 Secretariat. Back in May, Climate Interactive …
German High Schools to Learn about Climate Change using World Climate Tools
We are inspired by the tireless efforts of our World Climate Ambassador, Florian Kapmeier, to ensure that World Climate becomes one of the tools for teaching climate change in high schools in Germany. …
Starting a Global Climate Movement for Young People with Millennial Leader Juliette Decq
Few people can go to the UN climate change summit, so Juliette brings the UN summit to the people. Twenty-two-year-old Juliette Decq is the founder and head of COP in MyCity, a project …
Eduardo Pedro Fracassi: Climate Student to Climate Star
In three years, Professor Eduardo Pedro Fracassi has journeyed from being inactive on climate change progress to making a major impact with Climate Interactive's World Climate Exercise. He’s gone from …
Drew Jones discusses climate, hurricanes, and steroids on talk radio
Climate Interactive Co-Director Drew Jones discusses climate, the U.S. presidential debate, and Hurricane Matthew on the talk radio station 880 The Revolution. Listen to the audio …
Role-Playing a Path to Climate Stabilization
It was a big week for the Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World Climate), the role-playing mock-UN policy exercise created here at Sustainability Institute and by John Sterman at MIT where people …
Developed World Strikes a Climate Deal with Developing World (in a sim at least)
For the first time in our ~20 runnings of the simulation-based "Mock-UN" role-playing exercise, The Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World Climate), the delegates from the developed world moved first …
Running “Mock-UN” Climate Negotiations in Croatia from a Desk in the USA
As I write, 40 Croatian electrical utility executives and youth leaders are playing the roles of global UN delegates and proposing emissions targets to stabilize the climate. They are in Croatia, …
Innovative Partnership Launches Freeware Online Climate Simulation
A new partnership of companies and NGOs committed to open source climate simulations has launched a freeware climate decision support tool. Check it out here -- click on the big "C-Learn" …
World’s Countries Ratify Global Climate Deal! in a Dartmouth simulation at least…
Professor David Peart and Dr. Lori Siegel led a powerful learning experience for Dartmouth College students using the C-ROADS simulator as part of the Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World …
Leaders for a New Climate Workshop Engages and Empowers
Last week, Climate Interactive and Seed Systems held the first Leaders for a New Climate workshop at the MIT Sloan School School of Management in Cambridge, MA. This three-day workshop combined …