The Climate Scoreboard is an online embeddable widget that allows the public, journalists and others to track progress in the ongoing negotiations to produce an international climate treaty. The Scoreboard allows users to check, on a daily basis, whether proposals in the treaty process commit countries to enough greenhouse gas emissions reductions to achieve widely expressed goals, such as limiting future warming to 1.5 to 2.0°C (2.7° to 3.6°F) above pre-industrial temperatures. A team from Sustainability Institute (in Hartland, VT), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Ventana Systems has designed the Scoreboard to show the estimated temperature increase in 2100 if current proposals within the negotiations were to be implemented. The analysis behind the Scoreboard, based on the C-ROADS computer simulation, is also available on the Scoreboard site, as is a short video about the Scoreboard.
By embedding the Climate Scoreboard on your own websites, blogs, and Facebook pages, you will be able to follow and share with others the progress of the negotiations in Copenhagen from day to day, and continue tracking progress in the months following the conference. As positions in the negotiations evolve the Scoreboard will automatically update to reflect the changes.
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