Climate Poker

JOIN THE CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS A GAME FOR 2-4 CLIMATE DIPLOMATS BY ANDREA MEYER Artwork: Sebastian Wagner ages 12 and up Length of a game: 30-40 minutes Price: 7.90 EUR + package and postage. 1. edition, October 2009 Climate negotiations can be so simple! Those lagging behind learn from the front runners how to finally protect the climate. And those who suffer most from ever more and heavier storms etc. join forces. The bigger the conference the better, however, some countries will just not stop negotiating … Players are climate diplomats who try to organize conferences for like-minded countries. On the one hand, they want the conferences to be as big as possible. On the other hand players who are the first to have no countries left also have chances to win the game. Hence, at some point it makes sense to hand over countries to more "competent" colleagues, or to collect as many countries as possible in order to hold at least one big conference ... CONTENTS: 60 country cards, each of wich represents a government delegation. The card informs about the country's capital, the UNFCCC-group and alliances resp. country groups it belongs to at the climate negotiations as well as the risk groups it belongs to in the different categories. Besides, the card shows how many diplomacy points you can score for making the country's delegation content. CO2-emissions per capita Deaths due to storms, droughts etc. per 100,000 inhabitants between 1998 and 2007 Losses due to storms, droughts etc. in percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) 40 black chips, they represent the seats in the back room on your hand 1 green flag indicating whose turn it is 1 black house indicating who was the first start player