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?

Climate Challenge also aims to:

• 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

Climate Challenge is designed mainly for young professionals who will one day become the decision makers. The game will show them how their decisions today will impact the world around them in the future. This is one game where when the Game Over sign goes on, everybody loses.

Climate Challenge is scheduled for on-air web at the BBC.co.uk interactive network January 16. For more info about the game click on the "Read" link below.