Al Gore must be ecstatic over BBC's forthcoming interactive climate change game, Climate Challenge. Produced by Red Redemption Ltd, a leading developer specializing in scientific, educational and environmental games, Climate Challenge builds on the BBC's Climate Chaos collaboration with the world's largest computing experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century.

In Climate Challenge, players attempt to guide Europe from 2000 to 2100 through a series of choices that could make the difference between a safe or dangerous future for humanity. These choices, by the way, are based on the real choices governments have to make:

• Can you juggle the demands of running a country?
• Can you deliver food, water, and clean energy for a hundred years?
• Would your ideas save the planet?
• Will you just get voted out of power as you make the wrong choices?

• Give an understanding of some of the causes of climate change, particularly those related to carbon dioxide emissions
• Give players an awareness of some of the policy options available to governments
• Give a sense of the challenges facing international climate change negotiators