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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (December 19, 2009) The final Copenhagen Accord reaffirms the importance of limiting global warming to 2 °C, but current national commitments would lead to approximately 3.9 °C (7.0 °F) warming by 2100. More (+)

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (December 12, 2009) With less than a week to go, significant differences remain between the aggregate emissions reductions from current national proposals and the mitigation targets released yesterday in a draft text at the UNFCCC climate talks in Copenhagen.More (+)

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (December 9, 2009) 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 support a common conclusion: Copenhagen must deliver emissions cuts beyond the high-end of current proposals or risk missing the opportunity for a reasonable chance of keeping below 2°CMore (+)

(December 8, 2009) Fellows representing 7 countries and working in government, civil society, business, and philanthropy participated in the Step Up and Step Out workshop held at Trinity Conference Center in West Cornwall, Connecticut.More (+)

HARTLAND, VT, USA (December 3, 2009) Sustainability Institute today launched the Climate Scoreboard, an online tool that allows the public, journalists and other interested parties to track progress in the ongoing negotiations to produce an international climate treaty. The Scoreboard allows users to check, on a daily basis, whether proposals in the treaty process commit countries to enough greenhouse gas emissions reductions to achieve widely expressed goals, such as limiting future warming to 1.5 to 2.0°C (2.7° to 3.6°F) above pre-industrial temperatures.More (+)

(November 19, 2009) The December issue of National Geographic Magazine covers the “Carbon Bathtub” as framed and explained by Climate Interactive partner Dr. John Sterman of the Sloan School of Management at MIT. You can find the article here. This beautiful and information-filled graphic illustrates a powerful way to think about the dynamics of [...]More (+)

(October 2, 2009) This article by Nature’s Jeff Tollefson discusses how our C-ROADS model “translates complex climate modeling into readily digestible predictions.”More (+)

HARTLAND, VT (September 5, 2009) The 2009-2010 Fellows cohort is perhaps the most diverse cohort yet with fellows coming from seven states nationwide as well as Switzerland, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Brazil and Costa Rica. The Fellows work will bring knowledge and experience of sustainability from an assortment of issue areas including but not limited to climate change, agriculture, transportation, the arts, philanthropy, business and television.More (+)

(September 5, 2009) Lauren Morello of Climate Wire covers the C-ROADS simulation.More (+)

(September 5, 2009) B-Green Collaborative feature story highlights Climate Interactive’s tools and their potential uses in policymaker decisions. The feature gives a short analysis of our Climate Momentum and Dynamics tool , which was created to quickly display a pre-calculated set of climate scenarios based on actual C-ROADS output. Using this tool, they conclude that “if the people of the earth don’t change their ways, we will live in a world far warmer than it has been for the last 650,000 years…with an atmosphere and oceans far different than anything man has experienced before.” Thus, it is important that all nations work together to arrive at a path for reduction. More (+)