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En-ROADS workshops and the Climate Action Simulation
Facilitated sessions and a role-playing summit from Climate Interactive in which a group proposes climate policies and sees their effect on warming in the En-ROADS simulator as they go.
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What is reusable: closed sourceunknown dataAPI unknownpartly open participation Climate Interactive says the model files are proprietary but can be licensed; the equations are published in its Technical Reference.
Climate Interactive puts its En-ROADS climate simulator in front of groups: the person at the controls moves sliders for things like energy sources, carbon pricing and economic growth, and the graphs of emissions, temperature and other results change at once.2 This entry is about those sessions; the model has its own entry.
Climate Interactive runs, and trains others to run, facilitated sessions built on it.1,5 In the Climate Solutions Workshop, participants propose climate strategies to test in the simulator and a trained facilitator leads the discussion of what each one does, aiming for a scenario that keeps warming well below 2°C. The page suggests an hour and groups of 10 to 50.3 The Climate Action Simulation is a role-playing game of 2 to 3 hours for groups of about 12 to 50, set at an emergency climate summit called by the United Nations.4 Participants split into six or eight stakeholder groups from government, business and civil society. The facilitator plays the UN Secretary-General and tests their proposals in En-ROADS as they are made.4
Facilitators come through a free online course, Mastering En-ROADS, followed by attending at least two events and running at least two of their own before applying to become an En-ROADS Climate Ambassador.5 In October 2026 the site counted more than 970 ambassadors and more than 1.6 million users of the simulator, which it offers in 24 languages.1 The app page checks the device before loading and turns away phones and any screen 480 pixels or smaller, though it allows iPads and Android tablets running Chrome.6
Underneath is a system dynamics model of the economy, energy and the climate from 1990 to 2100, developed with the MIT Sloan School of Management and Ventana Systems; Climate Interactive says the model files are proprietary but can be licensed.2
En-ROADS shows a model doing most of its work with a facilitator beside it: the simulator answers in seconds, and the session is built around the group's argument about which levers to pull.
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- facilitated workshops and a role-playing game run on a web simulator
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- homepage
- https://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/
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- https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/
- cost
- free online course for facilitators; the maker does not state a price for the simulator
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Climate Interactive's global climate simulator, built with MIT Sloan and Ventana Systems; shows how choices in energy, land use and policy change emissions and temperature to 2100.
Tags: climate policy, simulator, workshops, facilitation, role-play