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Principle of the game

Players are producers who want to develop their businesses. Their plants must be fitted with as many emission quotas as the greenhouse gas volumes they emit. In the game, plants and quotas are symbolised by visible and easy to handle components.

When the game begins, all players' plants emit large quantities of greenhouse gas. In order to build more plants, players need to clean up the first ones: as these plants emit less gas, they can reuse the left over quotas to fit new plants. Besides, the Kyoto Protocol provides 'flexible mechanisms' to get more quotas. Kyogami has translated these flexible mechanisms into simplified forms:
 
  • Clean development mechanism: the player may build a clean plant in a developing country;
  • Joint implementation: the producer may clean up a plant belonging to another producer;
  • Carbon sink: the player may plant a forest;
  • Quotas trading: the player may buy quotas from other players who own more than needed, or in some circumstances, from the Bank.

    Commitment periods of the Kyoto Protocol are symbolised by the passage of GO. Each passage triggers a reduction in the allocation of quotas and the return on assets.


    • Kyogami as a game:

     Handling a collective commitment (reducing greenhouse gas emissions) through individual initiative makes the game original. Hence each player both competes and co-operates with other players. In order to win, players have to take advantage of every opportunity. They must also stay aware of the other players' situations, in order to trade quotas or plants in the most favourable terms.

    As in most games, luck plays its role, due to the cast of the dice, the dispatch of boxes on the board, and unexpected occurrences. The later may concern either a single player or the whole group, in a positive or negative manner. Uncertainty leads players to chose a strategy: some like it risky, others prefer it careful.

    Kyogami as a teaching tool:

    Within each box a booklet is enclosed, providing information on the greenhouse gas effect, climate change and the Kyoto Protocol. In this booklet, after the play, interested players will be able to find some references of books and web sites to help them deepen their knowledge.

    The booklet suggests alternative rules designed to experiment the many facets of the Kyoto Protocol. Kyogami also enables players to grasp the main targets of the Protocol by assessing after each game the economical growth and the environmental benefits which were achieved.