Summary The December 2020 update to En-ROADS includes a new baseline scenario, which leads to a lower global temperature in 2100: 3.6°C (6.5°F) instead of 4.1°C (7.3°F). These changes arise from …
Can trees solve the climate crisis? Unfortunately, No. Note on Bastin et al.’s erratum (2020)
(1) – MIT Sloan School of Business; (2) – ESB Business School at Reutlingen University In 2019 Bastin et al. (2019b) published “The global tree restoration potential” in Science.  The paper …
Bloomberg Green Builds an Interactive Article with En-ROADS – Here’s What Sits Under the Hood
On April 22, 2020, Bloomberg News published an interactive exploring the impact of different climate solutions using Climate Interactive’s En-ROADS simulator. Below you will find detailed explanations …
The Global Climate Movement is Growing at a Faster and Faster Rate
After last week's global climate strike we took a look back at the data on the size and scale of previous climate rallies, protests, and marches. The results show a movement that is not only growing, …
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 …
6 Methods to Unlock the Magic of Multisolving
The complex and interconnected challenges facing us today require solutions that pool people's expertise, funding, and political will to create solutions that multisolve, or solve multiple problems at …
Modeling Soil Carbon and Agriculture
Sometimes the very early stages of modeling can reveal important lessons. Validation and data are important for building a policy-relevant model, but setting up the basic physics of a problem and …
Analysis: US Cities and States Take Action to Meet Paris Climate Goals
In the wake of President Trump’s announcement that he will withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement, hundreds of cities, states, tribes, counties, and universities have committed themselves to …
Half the US Population Lives in Cities or States That Are Working Towards the Paris Agreement Climate Goals
We estimate that approximately 53% of residents in the US live either in a state that has adopted goals in line with Paris Climate Agreement or in a city that has. Together these cities and states …
Want to See US Climate Progress? Support City and State Leaders and the Grassroots Groups Who Hold Them Accountable
Less than a week after President Trump announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, cities and states across the US have adopted the goals of the agreement as their own. …
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, …
Analysis: U.S. Role in the Paris Agreement
By Ellie Johnston, Andrew Jones, Lori Siegel, and John Sterman President Trump is about to decide whether to withdraw from the historic Paris climate agreement or even take the US out of the UN …