Paris Climate Agreement: The Paris Agreement central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Additionally, the agreement aims to strengthen the ability of countries to deal with the impacts of climate change.

Instructions

• Prepare marker/string tool by taping multiple pieces of string to the same marker as shown in picture above. Add as many strings as people playing the game.
  
  
• Tape a piece of paper to the table/floor
  
  
• Write down a couple secret words on a piece of paper, these words should represent environmental actions you can take in your home. Choose a word randomly. Example words:
  
  • Renewable, Environment, Ecosystem, Advocate, Solutions, Composting, Zero Waste, Recycling, Biodiversity
    
    
• Reveal your word. You have one minute to write down the word as a team. One condition – YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK / COMMUNICATE!
  
  
• Debrief and ask your team how that was. Hard or easy?
  
  
• Try the activity again, but this time you are allowed to talk.

Discussion

• Was the activity easier now that you were allowed to talk? Did you do better or worse?
  
  
• The only way we’re going to reach our goal of maintaining 1.5 degrees Celsius (writing our word) is if we’re working together and communicating. We have to rely on each other to keep writing our word. So, Canada needs to do their part in holding their piece of the string so we don’t let the other countries down who are working hard to get to our goal.