MIT Climate Policy Center

Deepen your understanding of #climate policy and explore impactful solutions with #EnROADS. Peader Duffy, CEO and Chair at The ESG Exchange, is one of 70+ global leaders leveraging the simulators used in our MIT Climate Pathways Project (w/ @mitsloansusty.bsky.social + @climateinteractive.org).

GE Vernova kicks off MIT partnership to address climate issues - The Boston Globe CEO Scott Strazik helped preside over the launch of a partnership between the energy company and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

At the MIT CPC, we’re excited about MIT’s ongoing growth in sustainable energy research and how this partnership, focused on electrification, decarbonization, and renewables, can shape practical energy policies.

Who bears the burden of climate inaction? | Brookings Research

Can you put a price on climate impacts in the US? Yes, up to $570 per household annually, with poorer households hit the hardest. Well-designed policies, like a carbon tax & clean energy subsidies, are likely to have lower costs to US households.
Chris Knittel, Catherine Wolfram, Kimberly Clausing

#EnROADS empowers leaders from diverse industries to explore climate policy impacts. Pete Kronowitt, Founder, Face the Music Collective + Board Member, Music Declares Emergency, backs the simulators used in our MIT Climate Pathways Project (w/ @mitsloansusty.bsky.social + @climateinteractive.org)

The Paris Climate & Nature Week is the new European event dedicated to the ecological transition. Ten years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement and on the eve of COP 30 in Belém, this moment offers a unique opportunity to learn from a decade of climate action.

Choose Your Climate Future: The En-ROADS Climate Workshop The En-ROADS workshop is an interactive group experience using the En-ROADS climate solutions simulator.

The Center's team will take part in #ParisClimateWeek at @sciencespo with an #EnROADS workshop, the climate sim co-dev'd w/@climateinteractive.org + @mitsloan.bsky.social

Register:

📅 Tuesday, October 28 · 10 - 11:30am CET
📍 1 Place St Thomas d'Aquin

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Removing tax incentives may reduce adoption of EVs. How else can we incentivize EV purchases? Professor Chris Knittel, and others, suggest investing in charging infrastructure. Massachusetts leaders just committed $46 million to that tune.
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Interactive role-play with climate policy simulation can motivate evidence-based climate action - Communications Earth & Environment The climate action simulation exercise increased participants’ knowledge about high-impact climate actions and policies, and those gains persisted for at least 6 months, according to survey data and…

Excited to share research showing participants in our #EnROADS sims co-dev'd w/ @climateinteractive.org + @mitsloan.bsky.social experience gains in climate knowledge + engagement + many take real-world action. Read more in Communications Earth & Environment from @natureportfolio.nature.com journals.

With #EnROADS, leaders like Cherie Nursalim, Climate Advisor to Indonesian gov't + VC of Giti Group can simulate their climate ideas. Backed by 70+ global leaders, our MIT Climate Pathways Project w/ @mitsloansusty.bsky.social + @climateinteractive.org is helping shape the future of climate action.

Global Climate Policy Project unveils roadmap for climate coalition | MIT Sloan In new report, an international group of researchers propose a path for countries willing to align carbon pricing, avert trade frictions, and unlock $200 billion in annual revenues

The Harvard-MIT Global Climate Policy Project, including MIT's Professor Catherine Wolfram, suggests a global climate coalition that can: reduce emissions x7, raise $200B annually, minimize price impacts. The proposal will be presented at COP30 in Brazil.

Faculty director @knittelmit.bsky.social and his research colleagues offer a policy solution to cure range anxiety and power #EV adoption that is simple and cheap—and readily advanced by states.

Charger. Data. Transparency

Turn insight into impact with #EnROADS, the interactive simulator driving evidence-based climate action. Dr. Frederik Zohm, Exec. Board Member R&D, at MAN Truck & Bus SE, recognizes its power in the MIT Climate Pathways Project w/ @mitsloansusty.bsky.social + @climateinteractive.org

Webinar registration: Perspectives on Sustainability - Scenario Analysis In this episode we explore scenario analysis – a critical process for assessing climate resilience as required by IFRS S2.

DYK #EnROADS can be used to conduct climate-related scenario analysis? Join our colleague @elliej.bsky.social as she discusses this use of the tool co-developed by @climateinteractive.org + @mitsloan.bsky.social . Free IFRS Foundation webinar at 8PM EDT on Oct 6. Register today!

Through her work with the @MIT.edu-@Harvard.edu Global Climate Policy Project, Wolfram recently led a report that outlined the vision for this new coalition.

International carbon taxes would expand under climate proposal A coalition of nations that tax domestic carbon emissions would impose carbon fees on certain imports from countries outside the coalition.

"There's definitely a need to increase the ambition of the carbon pricing programs that are out there."

@cwolfram.bsky.social discusses carbon pricing under a proposed global climate coalition in @EENewsUpdates

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#EnROADS uses the best available climate science to help leaders visualize policy scenarios and assess their impacts. Alba Peña, Mexico Chapter Lead of Citizens' Climate Lobby, endorses this tool leveraged in our MIT Climate Pathways Project w/ @mitsloansusty.bsky.social + @climateinteractive.org

The award honors excellence in the real-world application of the principles of system dynamics, a computer-assisted approach to modeling complex systems that originated at @MIT in the 1950s and helps people improve their decision-making when dealing with such systems.

En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator Team Wins System Dynamics Award | MIT Sloan The En-ROADS climate solutions simulator team has won the 2025 System Dynamics Applications Award, for excellence in applying system dynamics principles.

#EnROADS for the Win!

The @system-dynamics.bsky.social honored En-ROADS (co-dev’d w/ @climateinteractive.org + @mitsloansusty.bsky.social) with its 2025 System Dynamics Applications Award at the 2025 International System Dynamics Conference in Boston.

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Run any policy meant to cut greenhouse gas pollution through the En-ROADS simulator and see what kind of dent it makes in the next century. You'll discover the best policy is the one lawmakers continue to avoid: a carbon tax on gas companies:
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Expand your knowledge of the climate solution landscape w/ #EnROADS. Industry leaders like Ha Vu, Frmr Sr Software Engineer at Google, inspire companies to take evidence-based action revealed by simulation thru our MIT Climate Pathways Project w/ @mitsloansusty.bsky.social + @climateinteractive.org

#EnROADS affects people, says Gabriel Kra, Prelude Ventures—the type of tool we need for a #climate problem that involves everyone. Gabriel is one of 70+ global leaders to endorse the simulators used in our MIT Climate Pathways Project (w/ @mitsloansusty.bsky.social + @climateinteractive.org ).

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Rep. @juliabrownley.house.gov (CA-26) doesn't guess which climate solutions are most impactful—she is one of many gov't leaders who have used the decision support tool #EnROADS (co-dev’d w/ @climateinteractive.org + @mitsloan.bsky.social ), which is regularly updated w/ the best available science.

Engage with Us | MIT Climate Pathways Project | MIT Sloan Learn about collaboration opportunities, resources, and ways to contribute to shaping effective climate policies through data-driven solutions and research.

Workshops, one-on-ones, event keynotes—the MIT Climate Pathways Project team (w/ @mitsloansusty.bsky.social + @climateinteractive.org ) is ready to bring our interactive #EnROADS simulator to your organization & talk evidence-based climate policy with you! ✓

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Feel empowered w/ #EnROADS: get direct access to the best available climate science in seconds. Industry leaders like Andrew Greenspan, HSBC, recognize the change-making potential of the simulators used in our MIT Climate Pathways Project (w/ @mitsloansusty.bsky.social + @climateinteractive.org ).

Data center flexibility can save money but may come with higher emissions: MIT In Texas, where renewable energy is booming, data center emissions fell by up to 40% in the MIT modeling of flexible data center workloads. In other regions, however, emissions rose.

Interesting insight into a new study from @mitceepr.bsky.social that shows opportunities for data centers to save operating costs, utilize more renewables, and reduce emissions with quotes from our researchers including faculty director @knittelmit.bsky.social

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Five Insights from the C-Suite: How En-ROADS Changed The Way One Business Leader Thinks | MIT Sloan Taking the En-ROADS climate solutions simulator outside of his classroom, Dr. Florian Kapmeier helped the CDO of TRUMPF SE + Co. KG gain new insights to apply to the company’s sustainability strategy.

When TRUMPF's Dr. Mathias Kammüller first used #EnROADS (co-dev’d w/ @climateinteractive.org + @mitsloan.bsky.social ) during CPP team member Florian Kapmeier's workshop, he knew it was a game-changing tool. Read below his 5 key En-ROADS insights + how they shaped TRUMPF's sustainability strategy 💡:

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Access evidence-based climate simulations and strengthen your storytelling w/ #EnROADS. Journalist @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social , @oregoncapitalchronicle.com , endorses the interactive simulators used in our MIT Climate Pathways Project (w/ @mitsloansusty.bsky.social + @climateinteractive.org ).

↕️ In Texas, emissions fall significantly by up to 40%. But in the Mid-Atlantic, greater data center flexibility leads to higher CO2 emissions due to lower renewable utilization.

The research was conducted by @knittelmit.bsky.social, Juan Ramon L. Senga and Shen Wang.

⬇️ On average, in the three regional grid locations measured, data center flexibility lowered costs by an average of 3.7 %

⬆️ In systems with high renewable penetration and limited remaining coal capacity, flexibility enables greater renewable usage and emissions reductions.