Climate Change Management Game
Global Temperature: +1.0°C
Time Left: 180 seconds
Economic Growth: 100%
Renewable Energy: 10%
Public Support: 50%
CO2 Emissions: 40 Gt/year
Budget: $1000 billion
How to Play Climate Change Management Game
Balance economic growth with environmental protection to save the planet!
- Use the action buttons to make decisions that affect the global climate and economy.
- Monitor how global temperature, economic growth, renewable energy adoption, and other factors change.
- Try to achieve the lowest temperature increase possible while maintaining economic growth over the 3-minute game period.
Game Mechanics
- Global temperature increases automatically over time.
- Your budget increases automatically, starting at 0.5 billion per second.
- Making good decisions increases your budget growth rate, up to a maximum of 5 billion per second.
- Investing in renewables reduces CO2 emissions but costs money.
- Implementing green policies can reduce emissions but may slow economic growth.
- Boosting the economy increases growth but also increases emissions.
- Public support changes based on your actions and affects policy effectiveness.
- The game lasts for 3 minutes.
Scoring
- Lower score is better.
- Your score is calculated based on final temperature increase, economic growth, renewable energy percentage, public support, and CO2 emissions.
- High temperature increase and high CO2 emissions heavily penalize your score.
- High economic growth, renewable energy adoption, and public support improve your score.
Tips
- Find the right balance between environmental protection and economic growth.
- Invest in renewables early to reduce long-term emissions.
- Implement policies strategically to maintain public support.
- Don't neglect the economy entirely - some growth is necessary to fund green initiatives.
- Monitor all indicators closely and adjust your strategy as needed.
- Make good decisions consistently to increase your budget growth rate.
