Becoming an effective facilitator of the World Climate Simulation takes some training. With the resources below, you’ll be able to learn about the World Climate Simulation, the C-ROADS simulator, and facilitation techniques. There are many others around the world, like you, who have taken these steps too – welcome to the community!
Join a Training Webinar
Join others for a webinar that covers how to run the World Climate Simulation, how the C-ROADS simulator behaves, and how to facilitate a group skillfully.
Read the Guide & Explore the Model
Read through our facilitator guide to better understand how to lead the World Climate Simulation. After this, explore the C-ROADS simulator to begin getting comfortable with the model itself.
Watch Our Videos
Our Facilitator Training video is here to teach you about facilitation resources, tips, how to set up a space, and how to leverage World Climate’s potential to deliver key insights about the climate system as well as social systems driving decision-making. Following this, browse our videos here or on our World Climate video page:
Additional Readings
Check out these resources to improve your understanding on systems thinking, climate science, and other topics to complement your facilitation training.
Systems Thinking and Climate Action
• The Climate Leader course — our series of videos about applying systems thinking to climate action
• “Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System” by Donella Meadows – an essay on the areas of a system where there is the most impact.
• “The Power of Multisolving for People and Climate” — TEDx talk by Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
Climate Change Science
• IPCC AR5 Summary — a condensed, over-arching summary of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) for Policymakers
• IPCC Special Report — a summary for Policymakers on the impacts associated specifically with global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels
• Executive Summary of the US National Climate Assessment (for US audiences) — an in-depth report on the present and future impacts of climate change in the United States
• Climate Interactive’s Climate Scoreboard — shows the progress that the national plans submitted to the UN climate negotiations will make in mitigating climate change
• Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) — a general background on carbon capture and sequestration technologies
• Carbon Removal — a general background on carbon removal technologies
Climate Change Communication
• Yale’s Program on Climate Change Communication — explore their research to better understand how climate communication relates to attitude and behavioral changes
• Skeptical Science’s “cheat sheet” — how to talk to climate deniers and combat climate change myths
Read Our Published Papers on World Climate
• WORLD CLIMATE: A Role-Play Simulation of Climate Negotiations — a published view on our role-playing, climate negotiations game, the World Climate Simulation
• Combining role-play with interactive simulation to motivate informed climate action: Evidence from the World Climate simulation — a publication exploring our approach of using gaming to encourage participants to learn for themselves and motivate climate action
• Climate Interactive: the C-ROADS Climate Policy Model — an overview providing insights on C-ROADS model structure