Pablo Suarez Featured in Reuters Article on Climate Games

Pablo Suarez, a visiting post-doc fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center, is receiving media attention for his innovative approach to climate change impacts.

Reporters from Reuters caught up with Suarez at a global climate summit in Durban, South Africa. Suarez, related his inspiration for his latest initiative for educating communities. After finding PowerPoint presentations to be somewhat soporific for the audience, he was pushed to try something else.

“I had to convey the idea of a storm, of an extreme weather event, and I had a Frisbee and I just threw it into the audience,” Suarez, a Red Cross associate director of programs, told Reuters.

“And the audience woke up, they saw that there was danger.”

Suarez has since developed games to educate communities, farmers, policy makers, and humanitarian workers on the probabilities of extreme weather events.

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Suarez will lead a gaming session associated Pardee Center Task Force meeting at Boston University in March. Further details will be available at bu.edu/pardee soon.