Climate Interactive is offering a two-day Climate Solutions Intensive course to explore climate solutions and impacts, illuminate systems structures driving climate trends, and equip you to use climate simulations for risk analysis and strategy. Through this course, you will emerge with a path forward that untangles the policy confusion, jargon, and competing claims of technological priorities surrounding climate action using En-ROADS—a widely-used global simulator Climate Interactive co-developed with the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative.
The Climate Solutions Intensive will be led by Andrew Jones, an expert in global climate strategy, the leader of the team that developed En-ROADS, and the Executive Director of Climate Interactive. Under his guidance, you will be able to ground yourself in the best available science of climate solutions and explore climate and equity challenges from the cutting-edge tool that has informed hundreds of thousands in business, government, and civil society.
This course is ideal for you if you want to:
- Gain insight into the global climate and equity challenge and what can be done about it.
- Use data-driven approaches and tools grounded in the best available science to understand climate solutions and priorities.
- Improve your understanding of the dynamics of energy demand, carbon emissions and removals, and land use to inform strategy and transition risk analysis in your work.
What you’ll get out of it:
- Clarity on high-leverage actions you or your team can take to address climate change and equity challenges.
- Hands-on, real-time experimentation with a cutting-edge simulator under the expert guidance of a leader in the climate space.
- New skills to engage top decision-makers to significantly increase their commitment to climate action.
- A completion certificate to show your newly acquired skills.
- New connections to broaden your network within the climate space.
The Climate Solutions Intensive will be held at the Park James Hotel in Menlo Park, CA from May 17-18, 2024. Our sessions will run from 9 AM to 5 PM each day, and lunch and snacks will be provided. Hotel reservations at the Park James Hotel will be available at a discounted rate for Climate Solutions Intensive attendees. Take advantage of our early bird pricing available until March 25, 2024.
“We brought the En-ROADS simulator to a small group of our employees, and I was completely blown away by the insights it delivered.” —Erin Baudo Felter, Vice President of Social Impact and Sustainability at Okta
The Climate Solutions Intensive will cover:
Module 1: Climate Solutions and Impacts
- Assess the impacts of different approaches to addressing climate change such as energy subsidies, carbon removal, energy efficiency, and land use changes.
- Identify what climate solutions will make the highest impact globally and where others fall short.
- Analyze the interactions between various interventions in the climate system and their collective ability to achieve goals in limiting outcomes such as temperature increase, inequity, biodiversity loss, extreme heat events, air pollution, and sea level rise.
- Explore economic and biogeochemical processes such as the economic “damage function,” climate feedbacks, and carbon cycle dynamics.
Module 2: Systems Structures Driving Climate Trends
- Discuss the structural drivers behind climate trends, deployment of solutions, and impacts from increased temperatures using a systems thinking perspective.
- Explain system dynamics concepts such as reinforcing loops, the stocks and flows of carbon dioxide, interactions between energy price and demand, and more.
Module 3: Using Climate Models for Risk Analysis and Strategy
- Examine the suite of scenarios from integrated assessment models such as those used by the IPCC, NGFS, and others that support analysis of transition risk for business.
- Discover the role of En-ROADS as a complement to other models but oriented toward custom scenario creation and dialogue for decision-makers.
- Practice approaches to transparency, uncertainty, and confidence-building in climate scenario development.
“The simulation fosters dialogue between decision-makers in different sectors, helping them to carve out the roles each can play in meeting shared climate goals.” —Cherie Nursalim, Special Advisor on Climate for the Government of Indonesia and Vice Chairman at Giti Group
About the facilitator
Andrew Jones is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Climate Interactive and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan. He is an expert on international climate and energy policy, a system dynamics modeler, a speaker, and a creator of policy simulations.
He led the teams at Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan that developed C-ROADS and En-ROADS, two climate simulators used widely to engage global decision-makers. His climate policy work has appeared in media outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Jones was trained in modeling through degrees from MIT and Dartmouth College. He now teaches systems thinking and climate policy at MIT Sloan, Stanford, and UNC-Chapel Hill.
He co-accepted the ASysT Applied Systems Thinking Prize and the System Dynamics Society’s Applications Award as well as Dartmouth College’s Ray W. Smith Award for the most significant contribution to the status of the college.
Read more about Andrew Jones and see examples of his work.
About Climate Interactive
Climate Interactive is a not-for-profit organization with global reach that creates and shares tools to drive effective and equitable climate action. Our real-time, interactive simulators–and associated workshops, games, and trainings–help leaders understand the impact of various scenarios and policy decisions on global temperature rise and equity outcomes.
Climate Interactive’s simulators are used by over 720,000 people across 160+ countries, ranging from heads of state to corporate leaders to students. Notably, Climate Interactive’s simulators were recently used to engage and train 128 members of the U.S. Congress leading up to the recent passage of the U.S. IRA Bill (2022), and were quintessential tools used by the Obama Administration and the Chinese Government to help secure the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
