GAMES FOR A NEW CLIMATE: GAME DESCRIPTIONS

Please arrive early for opening remarks and registration.

GAME SESSION 1 (morning session 9:30 am):  (all can play)

“Dissolving Disasters: A Resilience Game where Donors Walk the Talk”

(Subsistence farmers try to cope with changing rains. How will donors juggle between disaster preparedness and response?)

GAME SESSION 2 (morning session 11:45 am): (parallel games – select 1)

a) “Urban Trade-offs: A Game on Adaptation and Mitigation Investments”

(Builders bid for public funds to improve their city’s infrastructure, threatened by changing flood risks)

OR

b) “Humans versus Mosquitoes: A Game on Dengue Risk Management”

(Disease-carrying bugs try to bite humans and lay eggs to reproduce. Will humans avoid being bitten and clean up mosquito breeding grounds?)

GAME SESSION 3 (afternoon session 2:00 pm): (parallel game – select 1)

c) “Broken Cities: A game on Sustainable Urban Development”

(Developers shape a growing city. How will governments address the causes and consequences of climate change?)

OR

d) “FAIR: A Game on Farmers, Aid, Insurance and Resilience”

(Rural villages face chronic food insecurity due to unreliable rains. Will innovative risk management schemes succeed in their promise to help?    )