Target Mindset

1. •discovering the inexorable link between individual actions and collective outcomes in many world issues and seeing the importance of rallying large numbers of people to contribute to solutions
   

Target Skills

1. •analyse social situations to determine possible points of influence
   

2. •persuade and influence others to participate in beneficial collective
   actions

Sample Activity

CO2 negotiation game

Each student takes the role of an ambassador to a series of annual international meetings on climate change and negotiates with the other ambassadors over fifteen rounds. In each round, each country must indicate the number of emissions units by which it will reduce its output that year.

The ambassadors’ instructions include a scoring sheet for the ambassadors to use to evaluate their performance in the negotiation. The score sheet works so that the more a country refuses to reduce its emissions, the better its score, but the higher the global total reduction becomes, the better its score. Thus, in order to ensure that the global total remains high and its score thereby benefits, a country may have to reduce its emissions, despite the risk this represents.

There are brief debriefing sessions after rounds five and ten to alert students to some of the dynamics of the game and to allow them to consider potential strategies.

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