What even happened at the UN climate summit—and could you do a better job? These online and in-person simulators let you take a swing at saving the world.
My college-level students participate in mock-UN climate negotiations to help them understand the complexities of real-world negotiations and gain a more tangible understanding of the impacts of possible climate actions. Student groups are provided with guidelines of actual climate or financial impacts their represented country or stakeholder group is facing and what they need out of the negotiations, and tasked with proposing climate solutions their group is willing to take.
It’s inspiring to see my students embrace their assigned country or stakeholder group. They would have secret conversations in the hallways, bribe other groups, passionately plead their case to the entire class, do whatever they could to defend their proposals or the urgency of their situation. Some chose to walk out of negotiations. I entered their proposals into the C-ROADS climate simulator, and the tool immediately calculated whether the proposals were sufficient to keep warming below 1.
There is contagious energy from getting people into a room to geek out on the dynamics of climate change. Nobody needs to be a scientist or a politician. You can play negotiator, debate who’s responsible for what, and at the end, recognize the scale of the challenges and what’s needed to address them.
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