Good interview with David Schmittlein, the Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, by Rahim Kanani, including his description of the work of Climate Interactive partner Dr. John Sterman. Full …
Announcing the Spinoff of Climate Interactive
After a year of rising impact for the Climate Interactive (CI) program of Sustainability Institute, the board of SI and the staff of CI are pleased to announce that the program is “spinning-off” from …
C-ROADS Version 2.0 — Thinking about drivers of emissions scenarios post 2020
A new simulation from the C-ROADS team is coming! To fully address climate change, we'll need to look at strategies, policies, and investments over the next decade that will affect greenhouse gas …
Honoring Dr. Stephen Schneider and Acknowledging His Guidance
We were saddened to hear of the death of a great scientist and sustainability leader, Dr. Stephen Schneider. As others have chronicled, he was a brilliant champion for rigorous and …
Growth in Clean Energy Will Drive Itself Once We Get it Rolling, Says Systems Thinking Analysis from MIT
Good "systems thinking" news on clean energy from some rocking smart MBAs from Sloan/MIT, in this guest post by Trae Wallace and Christina Ingersoll. Check out their PPT presentation that tells the …
Climate Simulation Drives International Collaboration
US-China collaboration on climate systems modeling at the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn today. Prof. Zhao Xiusheng of Tsinghua University, Andrew Jones of Climate Interactive, Dr. Beth Sawin of Climate …
Live from Bonn: US-China Collaboration on Climate Analysis
Here in Bonn, Germany, at the UN climate conference, Dr. Elizabeth Sawin of Climate Interactive and Dr. Zhao Xiusheng of Tsinghua University collaborate on quantifying energy and climate futures. Here …
C-ROADS Team Heads to Bonn UNFCCC
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin and Andrew Jones of Climate Interactive are bringing real-time C-ROADS climate analysis to the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, Germany this week. We'll meet with the other scientists …
Fiddaman to Lead Climate Modeling Course
Dr. Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems, in my opinion the top system dynamics modeler of climate change science and policy, will be leading a public training course next month in New Mexico, USA. As …
“Climate Pledge Adders” Collaborate in Bonn
Many of the scientists and analysts who are working together to add up climate change mitigation pledges to determine their sufficiency to address climate change met to collaborate at the recent …
“Adding Up” Pledges Gets Official in UNFCCC!
A working group of the UNFCCC officially requested the sort of "Adding Up" of mitigation pledges that we do with C-ROADS and the Climate Scoreboard! Here's the accepted text: The AWG-KP requested …
The Calculators of the Global Climate Deal Unite in Bonn
At the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn Germany, the climate modelers who are calculating the effectiveness of mitigation pledges have united to collaborate towards strengthening the global climate deal. At a …