En-ROADS Climate Solutions Workshop

Thom Wilch, Professor, Department of Earth and Environment, Faculty Director of the Center for Sustainability and the Environment. Albion College, email twilch@albion.edu.

Monday, February 6, 2–4:30 p.m., In Person, Ludington 103. Class size unlimited.

This class is free, and anyone who took it previously is welcome to attend again.

This is a one-session AALL class. The En-ROADS Climate Solutions Workshop is an interactive group exercise guided by Dr. Thom Wilch, a trained facilitator, where people work together to test solutions for addressing climate change. In the workshop, participants propose climate solutions such as energy efficiency, carbon pricing, fossil fuel taxes, reducing deforestation, and carbon dioxide removal. We will test these approaches in the En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator, so participants can see the impact on global temperature and other factors in real-time. The goal of the workshop is to create a scenario that limits global warming to well below 2°C and aims for 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, the international goals formally recognized in the Paris climate agreement.

Join us to experience what it’s like to create your own climate future using grounded conversations; the resulting experience is hopeful, scientifically-grounded, action-oriented, and eye-opening.