Simulations – Green Diplomat

Simulation · about 10 minutes

The authorisation letter

Your seatLead negotiator for Norvania, a host country selling mitigation outcomes under Article 6.2

A partner government wants to buy the reductions from your new solar programme. Every tonne you authorise must be added back to your own emissions balance. Fund the programme without leaving your NDC short.

NDC integrity
Finance
Trust

Opening scene · The buyer's draft

A partner government wants to buy mitigation outcomes from Norvania's new 400-megawatt solar programme under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement.

Its draft agreement asks you to authorise every tonne the programme reduces, for ten years, at a fixed price. Your own NDC counts on part of those same reductions.

7 decision points · 4 possible endings

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Simulation · about 10 minutes

The bracketed paragraph

Your seatCo-facilitator of informal consultations on the enhanced transparency framework

It is 22:00 the night before the closing plenary. One paragraph on reporting by developing countries is still in brackets, and the text is due at 10:00. Find language that the room can adopt and that still means something.

Consensus
Ambition
Time

Opening scene · 22:00, the night before the closing plenary

You co-facilitate informal consultations on a draft decision about support for developing countries reporting under the enhanced transparency framework.

One paragraph is still in brackets. It would ask developing countries that use the framework's flexibility provisions to report, each round, the steps they have taken to improve. Group A wants it strengthened. Group B says it creates a new duty without new support. Group C, a coalition of small island states, wants ambition but fears losing support.

7 decision points · 3 possible endings

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Simulation · about 10 minutes

The cabinet room

Your seatHead of the drafting team for Kestria’s first carbon-pricing law

Finance wants revenue, industry fears for jobs, environment wants a price that bites. Turn a political commitment into a statute that will actually bind.

Ambition
Political support
Legal strength

Opening scene · First reading in cabinet

You lead the drafting team for Kestria's first carbon-pricing law. The draft covers power and heavy industry, about 40% of national emissions.

The finance ministry wants revenue, the industry ministry warns of job losses, and the environment ministry wants a price that bites. Cabinet wants a revised draft in two weeks.

7 decision points · 4 possible endings

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About the simulations

The countries, delegations and people in these simulations are fictional. The rules they negotiate are real: authorisation and corresponding adjustments under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement, the flexibility provisions of the enhanced transparency framework, and the design choices of carbon-pricing laws.

There is no single right path. Each ending explains the trade-offs behind it, so that a second attempt teaches as much as the first. Simulations you complete are recorded in your learner account.