Organizers

Background

Imagine a world where every school, every community from Albania to Zimbabwe, from China to the U.S. is actively designing and leading projects aimed at curbing and adapting to climate change, successfully addressing immediate risk reduction as well as long-term generational challenges. Building on, leveraging, and amplifying existing efforts, the Long Game will provide the tools and framework to mobilize the ingenuity and energy of young people, who can inspire and work with adults to transform the societal systems required to respond to the climate crisis at scale. 

Objectives

This session will present the recent research findings about simulation games that motivate real-world climate action and the “climate action sweet-spot,” or scale at which collective action can be triggered with minimum intervention. We will share research on the impact of gamifying climate education and decision support for students, business leaders, and policymakers using the World Climate and Climate Action Simulations. Participants will experience interactive demos of climate games developed by our teams and learn about their impact through research and case studies in different regions of the world. Finally, we will facilitate a discussion about how climate education in schools can be translated into real-world climate action by communities.  

Speakers

• Juliette Rooney-Varga, Professor at University of Massachusetts Lowell 

• Avit Bhowmik, Assistant Professor at University of Karlstad 

• Andrew Jones, Exec. Director, Climate Interactive 

Moderator

• Juliette Rooney-Varga, Professor at University of Massachusetts Lowell 

Key Outcomes

• Interactive climate education for action at scale with simulation games achieves motivated real-world climate action.
• Presentation of possibilities of how to use the En-Roads Climate Solutions Simulator