The collaboration of the C-ROADS team with Chinese climate analysts at Tsinghua University is growing via a university partnership. At the recent UN conference in Copenhagen, Drew Jones of …
Fiddaman Doesn’t Mourn the Copenhagen Accord’s Missing Emissions Targets
(This is a guest post by Climate Interactive team member Tom Fiddaman of Ventana Systems. His terrific blog is here. This post originally ran at the blog of Xujun Eberlein: Inside Out China.) I've …
Copenhagen Accord Reaffirms 2 Degree Goal, but Gap with National Proposals Remain. The Sooner the Action, the Cheaper and Easier.
The Copenhagen Accord reaffirms the importance of limiting global warming to 2 °C (3.6 °F), but current national commitments would lead to approximately 3.9 °C (7.0 °F) warming by 2100. To close …
19 December 12:30am: Draft Copenhagen Accord Too Thin to Analyze
Copenhagen -- As of 12:30 am on 19 December, the latest draft text for the Copenhagen Accord has too few quantifiable targets for our team to adequately analyze it. We look forward to using C-ROADS to …
Climate Scoreboard User Note: It Reports Results of National Proposals, Not the Full UNFCCC Copenhagen Agreement
The Climate Scoreboard, created by the Climate Interactive team with the C-ROADS simulator, indicates long-term outcomes of national proposals. It does not yet reflect the content of …
As Heads of State Talk Here in Copenhagen, We’ve Made Progress and Have Further To Go
[clearspring_widget title="Climate Scoreboard" wid="4b0afdf054484c54" pid="4b15120637e3b433" width="450" height="399" domain="widgets.clearspring.com"] Today, as the Heads of State gather here at the …
Copenhagen must deliver emissions cuts beyond the high-end of current proposals
In the past few weeks, four groups, including the C-ROADS team, have released analysis of the current proposals in the UNFCCC negotiations. While details vary between the studies, all four analyses …