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About Game On!

The project ‘Game On! Don’t let climate change end the game’ is an initiative of a consortium of 10 partners from 8 Central and Eastern European countries to activate the global youth and react to the existential threat climate change represents for the future of humankind. The project has been made possible thanks to the co-financing of the Development Education and Awareness Raising (DEAR) mechanism.

The Consortium strongly believes in the energized, strong will of younger generations to push forth for the urgent systemic change required to overcome the challenges posed by climate change. Thus, the project strives to activate this energy all across the region and the globe through a ‘gamification’ approach to initially tackle three core areas: Biodiversity Conservation, Adaptation and Mitigation, and Climate Justice.

Therefore, we have started developing different products — from geocaching games and board games to museum exhibitions and theater plays — to help raise awareness on the problems of and solutions to climate change, as well as to push the massive mobilization of people to demand and make the changes we need.

This is the Climate Game for our survival. We must win it.

Climate Game Rules

While climate change represents a broad set of threats to all life in the planet, the project will be focusing, above all, on three main issues:

Biodiversity Conservation

Biodiversity Conservation

The living world is a unique and spectacular place. Millions of kinds of plant and animal species with billions of individuals. This is biodiversity: the richness of life on Earth in all its forms, including the myriad of ecosystems that support it. The lives of species on Earth interlock in such a way that they sustain each other. And we, too, depend on this fine-tuned life support system.

Yet, the way we humans currently live on Earth is sending biodiversity into decline. Nature is fading before our eyes — and it is not just individual species that are being lost: we are losing critical parts of Earth's life support system.

What we have destroyed we must restore once again. It is possible: for nature has a unique capacity to bounce back to life. If we all act now, we can yet put it right.

Opportunities: We can show you how to protect it and increase it. The importance of the topic must be highlighted.

Call for action: Slow down, observe and make protective steps. Respect nature and its natural processes.

Adaptation & Mitigation

Adaptation & Mitigation

Adaptation and mitigation are actions to reduce the severity of impacts brought by climate change. They are aimed at creating suitable processes that reduce our vulnerability in front of these effects.

Mitigation: actions for reducing the flow of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere to prevent the catastrophic impact of severe climate change.

Adaptation: actions to reduce our vulnerability to the harmful effects of — unfortunately already inevitable, but hopefully not too severe — climate change.

 

Opportunities:  Spreading awareness about climate change together with an active youth in an educational, positive, and entertaining way.

 

Call for action: Without systemic change and the elimination of harmful human activities in the present, we will not preserve the natural environment for anyone in the future.

Climate Justice

Climate Justice

It is a concept that understands climate change as a social, ethical, and political issue because it has disproportionate effects on historically marginalized or underserved communities — especially, in the global South and, particularly, upon women, children, the poor, the sick, and those at risk of war.

 

Opportunities: We must emphasize this neglected problem and refute myths about it. We organize fact-finding missions with the youth, influencers, and journalists to bring this issue closer to the public.

 

Call for action: Stop unsustainable economic behaviour and profit motives. Instead, buy from those companies which ensure good working conditions in poverty-stricken communities. Recognize the need for an intersectional approach and towards the eradication of world views and ideologies that allow for oppressive systems to exist. Everyone deserves a secure future.