Welcome to the World Climate Game
Changing the world
through play.
We empower young people through life skills and future-oriented education.
We are committed to a sustainable and empathetic society.
With the World Climate Game, we strengthen life skills and promote future and climate education. At the same time, we sensitize, qualify, and connect multipliers from the education sector, businesses, communities, and associations. This is achieved through co-creatively developed, innovative content, learning formats, and communities.
With the World Climate Game, we strengthen life skills and promote future and climate education. At the same time, we sensitize, qualify, and connect multipliers from businesses, the education sector, communities, and associations. This is achieved through co-creatively developed, innovative content, learning formats, and communities.
The World Climate Game
The World Climate Game is an interactive, multi-day board game and simulation developed by Weitblick GmbH together with educators, climate scientists, game developers, and young people to strengthen the future skills of youth. The focus is not on knowledge creation, but on experience-based learning across generations: participants experience how complex economic, ecological, and social relationships function and learn what impact they create.
More than just a climate game
More than just a climate game
Our approach is integrative and interdisciplinary: we combine life skills development with environmental, democratic, and economic education, aligning ourselves with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Inner Development Goals (IDGs). The World Climate Game is based on the assumption that inner change is the first step toward outer change. In an intensive, three-day process, participants gain insights into a variety of 21st century issues and develop a range of social and cognitive skills for a future worth living. At the end, participants realize: their decisions matter.
Competencies

Communication Skills & Empathy

Problem-Solving & Decision-Making Skills

Self-Awareness & Tolerance for Ambiguity

Sense of Responsibility & Values
Content

Understanding Democracy & Collaboration

Practical Economic Knowledge & Resource Distribution

Global Context & Systems Thinking

Climate/Environmental Protection & Biodiversity
Competencies

Communication Skills and Empathy

Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills

Self-Awareness and Tolerance for Ambiguity

Sense of Responsibility and Values
Content

Understanding Democracy and Cooperation

Practical Economic Knowledge and Resource Distribution

Global Context and Systems Thinking

Climate/Environmental Protection and Biodiversity
Learn to teach future skills through play
Design learning spaces for the future: With the World Climate Game training, you learn how to sensitize young people to climate change and global dynamics through play.
Learn to teach future skills
through play
Design learning spaces for the future: With the World Climate Game training, you will learn how to sensitize young people to climate change and global connections through play.

More people, including global leaders, should play this game to develop the right mindset for tackling global challenges.
FAQs
Participants develop:
- Cognitive skills: critical & networked thinking, problem-solving ability, systems thinking, long-term orientation
- Social skills: cooperation, communication, empathy, self-confidence, integrity, courage, values, dealing with challenges, self-efficacy, capacity for action, hope & optimism.
- Subject knowledge: climate, environment, economy, democracy, and global interdependencies.
- Content: The game visualizes the climate crisis on a large game board with climate zones, landscapes, and over 1,000 game pieces. A scientific app simulates the effects of decisions on greenhouse gas emissions, resources and living standards.
- Dimensions:
- Simulation game – participants take on the roles of global decision-makers
- Board game – large, detailed representation of the world
- App & database – simulation of the consequences of decisions
- Process: Introduction from the Neolithic Revolution to the present day. The game starts in the year 2000; each round corresponds to a decade until 2100. Players react to events such as environmental disasters and social crises, make decisions, and shape a sustainable future.
- Certified game facilitator + game operator
- Room: at least 75 m², square, lockable
- Chairs for all players + 2 game facilitators
- Table island in the center (ideally 155 × 155 cm)
- 3 tables for materials, 2 pinboards
- Projector/Smartboard, stable internet access, power strip
- Smartphones (at least 1 per team, i.e., at least 12)
- We strive to offer the World Climate Game to schools free of charge whenever possible. For apprentice training in companies, there is a subsidy from the WKÖ (see "for companies"). We provide the game materials, including the transport solution, at cost (€3,500).
The game was developed in a participatory process with the target group and together with an interdisciplinary team consisting of educators, climate scientists, game developers, and artists.
The World Climate Game is a versatile tool for anyone aged 13 and older:
- General and vocational schools (Secondary Level I & II)
- Companies, especially for apprentice training
- University students
- NGOs, associations, leisure clubs.
- teambuilding or educational activity in companies.
The game is carried out by at least two certified game facilitators from the Weitblick trainer team. Alternatively, interested parties can complete a facilitator training program, which concludes with a certification and entitles them to conduct the game independently. The requirements are:
- Three-day game experience as a participant
- 2.5-day facilitator training
- Observation of a game
Schools and cooperation partners can purchase the materials as soon as at least two people have completed the facilitator training.
The future begins with a decision.
With the World Climate Game, (young) people experience how their decisions change our world. Get to know the World Climate Game and find out how you can use it optimally in your area of work.
