It’s fun, and not as hard as you think I’ve been an En-ROADS Climate Ambassador since March, and I always thought I’d be a "workshop-only" one. I ran my first workshop in my living room before the …
Stanford Graduate Students Compete in En-ROADS Challenge
In September 2020, 126 graduate and professional students at Stanford University used Climate Interactive’s En-ROADS simulator to confront a monumental challenge. Their mission: to recommend a …
New Op-Ed: COVID-19 recovery spending could catalyze transformative change, but time is running out
Written by Cassandra Breeze Ceballos and Dr. Elizabeth Sawin; published in full by The Hill …
December 2020 C-ROADS Update
The December 2020 update to C-ROADS includes three significant changes to the modeling and interface of the simulator: 1. A new Baseline Scenario (renamed from "Business as Usual"), which leads to …
En-ROADS Updated with New Baseline Scenario
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 …
The Earth has humans, so why don’t our climate models?
Over the past few decades, climate researchers have improved our understanding of global warming scenarios by increasing the complexity and precision of climate. These large models, using lots of …
Using Simulations to Interactively Engage Students
Climate Interactive’s Ellie Johnston recently led a guest webinar for the Climate Generation organization – a not-for-profit dedicated to enhancing climate education and inspiring youth leadership. …
Top Nine Ways to Take Your En-ROADS Climate Workshop from Good to Great
After many hours of helping beginner facilitators lead En-ROADS Climate Workshops, we’ve developed with some suggestions for taking your facilitation skills to the next level: Share these five …
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 …
Running the Climate Action Simulation with MBA Students from Judge Business School (University of Cambridge)
The Energy & Environment Special Interest Group from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, held a session of the Climate Action Simulation game, at the end of May. Facilitated by Andrei …
En-ROADS Impacts: A Closer Look at the Numbers of Participants, Ambassadors, and More!
It’s been just over half a year since we launched the En-ROADS climate solutions simulator publicly at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid. It took little time for people to …
Leading a Virtual World Climate Simulation Event
It was our first virtual World Climate Simulation event! At the back of our minds, we kept wondering, what if some participants are unable to join because of a slow internet connection? What if some …