On March 23, 2021, Eric Roston of Bloomberg Green published a newsletter piece exploring the impact of different climate solutions using the En-ROADS simulator from Climate …
What role can afforestation play in addressing climate change?
Note the authors of the paper discussed below have issued an erratum retracting some of their claims that we had pointed out initially. Additionally, En-ROADS has been updated since this post and so …
Big Updates Coming for En-ROADS, Our Climate Solution Simulator
For the last six months we have been hard at work on a newly updated version of our climate solution simulator En-ROADS that we will release later this year. This new tool will put the best available …
How to Run the World Climate Simulation with Younger Children
The World Climate role-play simulation can work for kids as young as 7-8 years old. We’ve done it - and found that they love the drama of negotiating, the visual delight of graph lines changing in …
“You Fix the Climate” – Behind the New York Times Opinion Piece
The new interactive tool in the New York Times, "You Fix It: Can You Stay Within the World's Carbon Budget?" gives you the power to explore over 8,000 scenarios for addressing climate change. For …
Response to White House Talking Points on Paris Agreement
From Dr. John Sterman, MIT/Climate Interactive and Andrew Jones, Climate Interactive, White House talking points on the decision to leave the Paris Agreement state: According to researchers at MIT, …
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Video – Ten Reasons to Be Hopeful for the Climate
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Climate Interactive Co-Director Andrew (Drew) Jones shared his top ten reasons to be hopeful for the climate in this dynamic presentation for the Sierra Club (16 minutes). It includes a demo of the …
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 …
Tips for Running World Climate for Youth
Over the past ten years, I have run World Climate many times for young people aged 10 – 17, with groups from 20 – 120. Here are my tips, which you can also find the Additional Materials section our …
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., …
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 …
The Kigali Deal on HFCs Is Important but Won’t Save us Another Half a Degree
The Kigali Amendment on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) is excellent news for the climate. It tackles a powerful greenhouse gas, binds parties to take action with more teeth than the Paris Agreement, and …