Organiser: Omega: Online Megagame and E-Mail Game Association
Designer: Darren Green
Time Zone: BST

The year is 2026 and the world is slowly emerging from a long period of economic stagnation. Latest reports predicts that by the year 2100, the global average temperature will have increased by 3 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrial levels. Current models show that CO2 emissions will still continue to increase for at least the next decade.

A number of nations and corporations have pledged to work with the UN to address this by:

• Switching power generation away from fossil fuels to solar, wind and nuclear

• Supporting research into technological solution

• Transitioning the global economy to locally-based production and away from a reliance on growth

• Reducing corruption so the power of lobbies and cartels to support the status quo is weakened

• Introducing societal changes that emphasise sustainability and re-wilding programmes

Come and play a short (3 hour) online mini-megagame on Saturday September 21 at 3pm (UK/BST) 4pm (Europe/CEST) 7am (PDT) 10am (EDT). Player roles are world leaders/diplomats or sustainable energy corporation CEOs and of course, the pivotal yet under-resourced United Nations.

Actions in the game have an effect on a climate model (see below) and at the end we get to see if things have shifted (in either direction). There’s the challenge of working as a group to move the model in the right direction (hint: even shifting it 0.1 degrees is HARD!) but also the consideration of how much you are willing to restrict and reduce the economic or political power of your nation/corporation in order to do this.