En-ROADS Have you ever thought about what you would do to tackle climate change if you ruled the world? Would you subsidize renewable energy? Add a carbon tax? Finance research and development in new technology? Now you can test your theories to find what really works to combat global warming. Climate Interactive’s long-awaited climate and energy policy and investment […]
World Energy Featured in Governing Magazine
A World Energy simulation has been covered by Governing Magazine. Thanks to Steve Kaagan, one of our very active World Climate Ambassadors, the event was a great success. By contacting the magazine before leading the simulation, Steve made sure the tremendous opportunities offered by this tool to local and state leaders were heard. Click on the picture to […]
Students Address Climate Change Using the World Energy Simulation
Guest post by Steve Kaagan, author of several books on leadership in education In late February, the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) ran a competition which pitted teams of students from different schools against each other to solve a pressing policy problem. The competition included about 300 students, competing simultaneously […]
One Professor’s Enthusiasm for Interactive Classes Ripples Outwards
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 workshops themselves for high school audiences. Michele’s undergraduates have already reached 100 high school students at 3 different schools. This is tapping into a powerful […]
Hewlett Foundation Awards Climate Interactive Major Grant To Launch User-Friendly Climate and Energy Model
The Hewlett Foundation has awarded Climate Interactive a $200,000 grant to support the research, development, and public release of the simulation En-ROADS. The tool, which builds on the award-winning C-ROADS model, enables people to create and test long-term scenarios for success on climate through a variety of policy and investment levers. With En-ROADS, anyone can explore the […]
World Energy at NCSE Energy & Climate Conference
Climate Interactive’s World Energy Exercise enables participants to take on the role of leaders from key economic and energy sectors and negotiate a climate and energy deal. Later this month, participants at the National Council for Science and the Environment’s (NCSE) 15th National Conference and Global Forum on Science Policy and the Environment: Energy and Climate Change will have an opportunity to design their own […]
New Powerful Role Play Exercise at MIT Builds Grounded Hope for the Climate
World Energy from Climate Interactive on VimeoWorld Energy is a new role-playing game that enables participants to work together in groups to negotiate a pathway through the global energy transition and limit future climate risk. In the video above, featuring Andrew Jones, John Sterman, and Juliette Rooney-Varga, students at MIT play the exercise and experience the dramatic negotiations […]
Online En-ROADS Model Debuts at Stanford World Energy Exercise
Stanford grad students experienced the thrill and complexity of dealing with climate change head on recently, as Climate Interactive brought our World Energy exercise to Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy for the second year running. Led by Climate Interactive Co-Director Drew Jones, World Energy challenges participants to create an energy policy that will limit global […]