Today we have a guest blogger, long time colleague, the system dynamicist and systems thinker Kris Wile of Systems Thinking Collaborative. Chris Soderquist, of Pontifex Consulting, and I delivered …
Running “Mock-UN” Climate Negotiations in Croatia from a Desk in the USA
As I write, 40 Croatian electrical utility executives and youth leaders are playing the roles of global UN delegates and proposing emissions targets to stabilize the climate. They are in Croatia, …
Developed World Strikes a Climate Deal with Developing World (in a sim at least)
For the first time in our ~20 runnings of the simulation-based "Mock-UN" role-playing exercise, The Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World Climate), the delegates from the developed world moved first …
Role-Playing a Path to Climate Stabilization
It was a big week for the Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World Climate), the role-playing mock-UN policy exercise created here at Sustainability Institute and by John Sterman at MIT where people …
Teaching in Germany from My Desk in the States
Taught climate dynamics in Germany using C-ROADS (formerly called Pangaea) today from my desk in North Carolina, USA. Using GoToMeeting to send the image of the model on my computer screen over to …
The Copenhagen Climate Exercise
Most people get lost when they just see the results of models. But people really understand when, as I saw in this Copenhagen Climate Exercise, they experience the results. -- Dr. Bob Corell, Global …
Supporting the “Clout and Climate Change” War Game
Welcome to the "Clout and Climate Change" War Game led by the Center for New American Security. It is 2015. A category 5 hurricane ravaged Miami in 2012 and millions of Bangladeshi environmental …
MIT Tech Review Covers Sterman and “Copenhagen Climate Exercise”
This month's MIT "Technology Review" covered our partner and Climate Interactive co-founder John Sterman playing our team's "Copenhagen Climate Exercise" (now "World Climate") using C-ROADS (formerly …
The Climate War Game Team
Our team for the Center for New American Security "Clout and Climate Change" War Game in DC (see the Capitol in the background?) June 2008. That's Tom Fiddaman from Ventana Systems, me (Drew Jones …