The En-ROADS Climate Workshop is an interactive group experience that uses the En-ROADS climate solutions simulator—a free, easy-to-use, system dynamics model codeveloped by Climate Interactive and the MIT Sloan School of Management.

 

En-ROADS gives users the opportunity to test out different climate change solutions, en route to creating a future that limits global warming to well below 2°C from pre-industrial levels, in line with the Paris Agreement. In this 90-minute session, Prof. Dr. Florian Kapmeier, ESB Business School & MIT Climate Pathways Project, will give you a tour of the En-ROADS simulator and see where the world could be headed if we don’t implement more climate action than we have today. Next, you’ll work together to test out your own solutions, build a collective scenario of success, and explore the future you’ve created. The experience delivers insights into policies and actions that can meet climate goals.

 

This session is meant to introduce participants to the complexity of decision making and allow them to explore the impact policies have on factors like energy prices, temperature increase, air quality, sea level rise, biodiversity loss.  

Developed by Climate Interactive, MIT Sloan, and Ventana Systems, En-ROADS is a system dynamics model carefully grounded in the best available science, and has been calibrated against a wide range of existing integrated assessment, climate, and energy models. The goal: to break through the noise and equip elected officials, business leaders, researchers, students and society at large with the knowledge they need to implement equitable and high-leverage climate solutions.

 

En-ROADS helps make connections between things participants care about and the possibilities available to help ensure a resilient future. You can learn more about the science behind the simulator here.

To-date, 465,000+ people in 181 countries have experienced our interactive simulations, including 20,000+ leaders in government, business, and civil society through the MIT Climate Pathways Project.

 

The workshop will be concluded with a key-note by John D. Sterman, the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.

The session will be moderated by Christian Erik Kampmann, Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and Innovation, CBS.

 

 

 

Dr. Florian Kapmeier is Professor of Strategy at ESB Business School of Reutlingen University, Research Affiliate at the MIT Climate Pathways Project (CPP) within the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Partner of Climate Interactive. As European lead of the CPP—a collaboration between the MIT Climate Policy Center, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, and Climate Interactive—he advances evidence-based climate policy through the use of interactive simulations. Florian’s research and teaching focus on how organizations transform toward environmental sustainability. He is a co-developer and one of the world’s top facilitators of the En-ROADS Climate Workshop and Climate Action Simulation, engaging leaders across government and business in impactful engagements with En-ROADS. His En-ROADS engagements inspire ambitious climate action through systems thinking and experiential learning.

 

John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He is also the Director of the MIT System Dynamics Group and the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative.

Sterman’s research centers on improving decision-making in complex systems, including corporate strategy and operations, energy policy, public health, environmental sustainability, and climate change. His work ranges from the dynamics of organizational change and the implementation of sustainable improvement programs to climate change and the implementation of policies to promote a sustainable world. Sterman pioneered the development of “management flight simulators” of corporate and economic systems which are now used by corporations, universities, and governments around the world.

 

Sterman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and received an honorary doctorate from the Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland. At MIT, he has been recognized with the Samuel E. Seegal Faculty Prize, given to a professor who “inspires students in pursuing and achieving excellence." Sterman holds an AB in engineering and environmental systems from Dartmouth College and a PhD in system dynamics from MIT.

 

With a background in engineering from DTU and a Ph.D. in management from MIT, Prof. Kampmann’s specialty is system dynamics, a field applying concepts from engineering control theory to socio-economic problems.  Much of his academic research has been on methods to improve the analytical tools for system dynamics.  Substantively, his interests center on the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, particularly in the transportation sector.

Prof. Kampmann’s primary research areas are system dynamics analysis, sustainable energy development, electric mobility and green urban mobility.