Powerful Role Play Exercise at MIT Builds Grounded Hope for the Climate

By Heather Kachel
September 8, 2014

World Energy from Climate Interactive on Vimeo

World Energy is a role-playing game that enables participants to work together in groups to negotiate a pathway through the global energy transition and limit future climate risk. In the video above, featuring Andrew Jones, John Sterman, and Juliette Rooney-Varga, students at MIT play the exercise and experience the dramatic negotiations that occur while groups strive to meet their climate goals. At the end, participants share a grounded hope for our future and what sort of leaders they will need to be to contribute to progress.

The game is supported by our global mitigation simulation En-ROADS.

Climate Interactive has developed World Energy in partnership with MIT, U Mass Lowell, Stanford’s Precourt Institute of Energy, and others

Video Credits:

World Energy Co-Developer and Video Producer: Juliette N. Rooney-Varga

Videographer: Teresa Hartmann

Assistant videographers: Jared Nease and Devan Hawkins

Editing and Motion Graphics: Rachel D’Erminio