This Tuesday, October 11, delegations from different countries were at the LFO for a World Climate Summit! Indeed, 14 of our final year students in spé SES and spé SVT were supervised by Frédérique HOUSEAUX and Sandra RODOT to take part in a simulation exercise!
World Climate is a role-playing climate negotiation exercise that explores the science and geopolitics of international climate change agreements.
This simulation revolves around the C-ROADS software which models the dynamics of the climate system and has influenced real world negotiations.
It has been performed by thousands of high school students, college students and UN officials in dozens of countries around the world. It was therefore time for our students to also lend themselves to the game!
During the simulation, all the actors embodied by our students noted the inequalities between the 3 blocks of countries used concerning the consequences of a world at more than 2°C.
An opportunity for them to understand the obstacles and levers of negotiations, to discover possibilities of success in meeting the climate challenge through proposals for actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change. 2 objectives in the 2 negotiation times making up this simulation: Reach an agreement to reduce levels of greenhouse gas emissions to a level that keeps global warming below 2°C by 2100 compared to pre-industrial levels.
Find a compromise on the sharing of the costs of the mitigation and adaptation fund intended for the most vulnerable countries.
At the end of the 2 hours of negotiations, the proposals entered into the C-ROADS software led to a warming of 2.4°C on average on Earth in 2100… But despite the 2°C objective not being achieved, we have able to discuss the impressions and feelings of the students during this exercise which was greatly appreciated !
Thank you again to the participants for their commitment to limit the current global warming and thus allow the future habitability of the planet. “As for the future, it is not a question of foreseeing it, but of making it possible. » Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Citadel, 1948 Introductory sentence to the IPCC special report – 2019
