The game includes cards with more than 70 environmental vocabulary words involving climate solutions, energy sources and disasters. But they can also serve as productive conversation starters.

Climate COP29 Board Game Borami Seo, Solutions for Our Climate, left, and Yi Hyun Kim, Solutions for Our Climate, play Daybreak, a game where players are supposed to work together to find a way to ...

Climate change is increasing their frequency and intensity, and experts are struggling to prepare vulnerable communities. But some are trying a new approach - a board game.

I’m one of them, with a cardboard box — the reason for our gathering — tucked under one arm. Inside it is the just-released climate twist on a classic board game, Catan: New Energies.

A new version of the popular board game Catan aims to make players wrestle with a 21st-century problem: How do you develop and expand without overly polluting the planet?

To ensure the game’s climate science was still within the bounds of reality, Assadourian came on board as a consultant for New Energies toward the end of its development in 2022.

The game has players take the roles of world governments as they race to draw down emissions before climate change makes Earth uninhabitable.

Borami Seo, Solutions for Our Climate, left, and Yi Hyun Kim, Solutions for Our Climate, play Daybreak, a game where players are supposed to work together to find a way to curb climate change, at ...

In each game, the temperature went beyond the limit that the world set in the 2015 Paris Agreement: 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, roughly the mid-1800s.

In the first game, Courtney Howard of the Global Climate and Health Alliance took that to heart and felt the weight of the world as temperatures rose and disasters multiplied.

Nation & World In a board game, climate experts work to save the world, which diplomats at COP29 try in real life Nov. 21, 2024 at 9:21 pm Updated Nov. 21, 2024 at 10:12 pm ...